Mark 11 : 8

The Greek opens with a coordinating καί before the δέ-clause, an example of the redundant καί...δέ construction characteristic of Markan Greek. Neither the Vulgate nor the Peshitta render this initial conjunction, beginning instead with the subject.

Greek expresses possession with the genitive pronoun αὐτῶν and Latin with the possessive adjective sua, both following the noun; Syriac fuses the third-plural pronominal suffix directly onto ܢܚܬܝܗܘܢ ('their garments'), a single morphological word rather than a separate token.

Greek ἔστρωσαν and Latin straverunt are simple aorist/perfect indicatives; the Peshitta uses the periphrastic participle ܡܫܘܝܢ ܗܘܘ ('were spreading'), a Syriac durative construction conveying ongoing past action that the others render punctiliarly.

Greek εἰς τὴν ὁδόν and Latin in via use a preposition plus articular noun; Syriac ܒܐܘܪܚܐ prefixes the proclitic preposition ܒ directly to the noun, with no separate article, reflecting the Syriac emphatic-state idiom. The Vulgate's colon (:) marks clause division absent in the source languages.

Greek στιβάδας denotes leafy branches or rushes strewn as bedding; Latin frondes ('leafy boughs') matches this sense closely, while Syriac ܣܘܟܐ ('boughs, branches') generalises to tree-limbs without the connotation of foliage for spreading.

Greek uses the aorist participle κόψαντες ('having cut'), subordinating the cutting to the main verb; Latin renders it as a finite imperfect cædebant ('were cutting'), and Syriac as the periphrastic participle ܦܣܩܝܢ ܗܘܘ ('were cutting down'), both promoting the action to a coordinate finite clause.

Greek ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ('from the fields') and the matching Latin de arboribus diverge in object: the Vulgate reads 'from the trees' rather than 'fields', aligning with the Syriac ܡܢ ܐܝܠܢܐ ('from the tree[s]'). The Latin and Syriac thus agree against the Greek in specifying trees as the source of the branches.

Greek shifts to the imperfect ἐστρώννυον ('were spreading'), conveying iterative action; Latin matches with the imperfect sternebant, while Syriac ܘܡܫܘܝܢ is a waw-coordinated participle, again favouring paratactic coordination over the subordinated or distinct tense forms.

The closing 'on the road' repeats the earlier prepositional phrase. Greek (εἰς τὴν ὁδόν) and Latin (in via) again employ preposition plus noun, while Syriac ܒܐܘܪܚܐ uses the proclitic ܒ on the emphatic-state noun without a separate article.