Mark 15 : 19

The Peshitta employs a periphrastic construction (ܡܚܝܢ ܗܘܘ, participle + auxiliary 'were') to render the Greek imperfect ἔτυπτον, a standard Syriac strategy for expressing continuous past action. Greek and Latin use synthetic imperfect forms (ἔτυπτον / percutiebant).

The Vulgate inserts a colon after 'arundine,' creating a stronger pause before the next clause. Neither the Greek nor the Peshitta tradition marks a comparable syntactic break here, treating the sequence of mockery actions as a continuous series.

The Peshitta again uses periphrastic construction (ܘܪܩܝܢ ܗܘܘ, participle + 'were') for the Greek imperfect ἐνέπτυον, maintaining aspectual parallelism with the previous clause. Greek and Latin employ synthetic imperfects (ἐνέπτυον / conspuebant).

The Peshitta specifies ܒܐܦܘܗܝ ('in his face'), making the target of the spitting anatomically explicit, whereas Greek αὐτῷ and Latin eum use simple dative/accusative pronouns without specifying the body part. This represents a clarifying expansion typical of Syriac narrative style.

Greek uses a participial phrase (τιθέντες τὰ γόνατα, 'placing the knees') with article + accusative plural; Latin employs a similar participial construction (ponentes genua) without article; Peshitta uses a periphrastic finite verb (ܘܒܪܟܝܢ ܗܘܘ ܥܠ ܒܘܪܟܝܗܘܢ, 'and they were bending upon their knees') with prepositional phrase, converting the Greek participle into a coordinate main clause.