Mark 14 : 44

The Peshitta omits the postpositive conjunction δέ / autem, beginning the sentence directly with the verb. This is a characteristic Syriac stylistic preference for asyndetic construction where Greek and Latin employ connective particles.

Greek uses an articular participle construction (ὁ παραδιδοὺς αὐτόν, 'the one delivering him up'); Latin employs a simple noun (traditor ejus, 'his betrayer'); Peshitta uses a double construction with both a participle and a relative clause (ܡܫܠܡܢܐ ܗܘ ܕܡܫܠܡ, 'the betrayer who was betraying'), creating semantic emphasis through redundancy.

Greek places the indirect object after the noun (σύσσημον αὐτοῖς, 'a sign to them'); Peshitta reverses this order (ܠܗܘܢ ܐܬܐ, 'to them a sign'), following typical Semitic word order with the prepositional phrase preceding its governed noun; Latin mirrors the Greek sequence (signum eis).

The Vulgate inserts a colon after dicens to mark the beginning of direct speech, while Greek uses a raised dot (·) and Peshitta employs no explicit punctuation marker. This reflects differing scribal conventions for indicating quotation boundaries.

Greek uses the aorist subjunctive φιλήσω (first person singular, 'I may kiss'); Latin employs the future perfect osculatus fuero ('I will have kissed'), reflecting Latin's preference for the future perfect in indefinite temporal clauses; Peshitta uses ܕܢܫܩ ܐܢܐ ('that I kiss I'), with the explicit first-person pronoun ܐܢܐ added for emphasis, a common Syriac construction.

Greek and Latin both use an emphatic pronoun construction (αὐτός ἐστιν / ipse est, 'he himself is'); Peshitta uses the demonstrative pronoun ܗܘܝܘ ('he is'), which functions as both copula and demonstrative, achieving the same emphatic effect through a more compact Semitic construction.

The Peshitta omits the coordinating conjunction καί / et between the two imperatives, using simple juxtaposition (ܐܘܚܕܘܗܝ ܙܗܝܪܐܝܬ ܘܐܘܒܠܘܗܝ). The conjunction ܘ appears only before the second verb, creating an asyndetic-then-syndetic pattern typical of Syriac narrative style.

Greek and Latin place the adverb after the verb (ἀπάγετε ἀσφαλῶς / ducite caute, 'lead away securely'); Peshitta places the adverb ܙܗܝܪܐܝܬ ('carefully') before the final verb ܘܐܘܒܠܘܗܝ ('and lead him'), reflecting the Semitic preference for adverbial modifiers to precede the verbs they modify.