Mark 12 : 38

Greek places the conjunction Καὶ at the beginning of the sentence, while Syriac incorporates it into a compound prepositional phrase ܘܒܝܘܠܦܢܗ ('and in his teaching'), creating a more compact syntactic unit. Latin follows Greek word order with initial Et.

Greek places the dative pronoun αὐτοῖς ('to them') before the prepositional phrase, while Syriac ܠܗܘܢ and Vulgate eis position it after the verb, reflecting different conventions for clitic pronoun placement in each language.

Greek uses a prepositional phrase with article (ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ, 'in the teaching of him'); Latin mirrors this structure (in doctrina sua); Syriac employs a bound construct with prefixed preposition ܒܝܘܠܦܢܗ ('in-teaching-his'), a characteristic Semitic nominal construction.

Greek uses imperfect ἔλεγεν ('he was saying'), indicating continuous past action; Syriac employs the periphrastic construction ܐܡܪ ܗܘܐ (perfect + auxiliary) to express the same durative aspect; Vulgate dicebat uses Latin imperfect, with punctuation colon added for rhetorical emphasis.

Greek uses ἀπὸ τῶν γραμματέων with the partitive genitive article τῶν; Syriac ܡܢ ܣܦܪܐ uses the preposition ܡܢ with determined state noun (no separate article); Vulgate a scribis employs ablative without article, as Latin lacks definite articles.

Greek uses articular participle τῶν θελόντων ('the ones desiring') as a substantival relative construction; Latin employs relative pronoun qui volunt ('who wish'); Syriac uses the relative particle ܕ with finite verb ܕܨܒܝܢ ('who desire'), reflecting standard Syriac relative clause syntax.

Greek separates preposition ἐν from noun στολαῖς and places infinitive περιπατεῖν at the end; Syriac uses compound prepositional phrase ܕܒܐܣܛܠܐ ('that-in-robes') with prefixed ܕ marking the infinitival complement, followed by verb ܢܗܠܟܘܢ; Latin follows Greek structure with in stolis ambulare.

Greek uses plural ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς ('in the marketplaces') with article; Syriac uses singular ܒܫܘܩܐ ('in the marketplace'), a typical Semitic collective singular for public spaces; Vulgate in foro employs singular ablative without article, following Latin conventions for place expressions.