Mark 14 : 56

Greek employs the compound verb ψευδομαρτυρέω ('bear false witness') as a single lexeme, while Latin distributes the semantic load across testimonium falsum dicebant ('were speaking false testimony'), and Peshitta uses the periphrastic construction ܡܣܗܕܝܢ ܗܘܘ (participle + auxiliary 'were testifying'). The Vulgate explicitly separates 'false' as an adjective modifying 'testimony,' whereas Greek fuses falsity into the verbal root itself.

Peshitta opens with the temporal/circumstantial particle ܟܕ ('while/when'), converting the main clause into a subordinate temporal construction. Neither Greek nor Latin attest this syntactic framing; both traditions present the clause as an independent statement introduced by γάρ/enim.

Vulgate inserts a colon after eum, creating a rhetorical pause before the adversative clause. This punctuation choice has no equivalent in Greek or Peshitta manuscript traditions and reflects Latin editorial convention rather than textual variance.

Greek places the adjective ἴσαι before the article and noun (ἴσαι αἱ μαρτυρίαι, 'equal the testimonies'), employing predicate-adjective fronting for emphasis. Peshitta uses ܫܘܝܢ ܣܗܕܘܬܗܘܢ ('equal their-testimonies') with the adjective in natural attributive position, while Vulgate renders convenientia testimonia ('agreeing testimonies') with a semantically equivalent but lexically distinct participle, also in attributive position.