Mark 15 : 47

Greek opens with the article ἡ plus postpositive δέ before the proper name; the Vulgate (Maria autem) and Peshitta (ܕܝܢ following ܡܪܝܡ) both reproduce the adversative particle but, lacking a definite article, attach it to the name. The Greek feminine article ἡ has no equivalent in either version, a routine consequence of those languages' nominal systems.

Greek uses an articular epithet (ἡ Μαγδαληνή, 'the Magdalene') whereas the Vulgate transliterates as a bare appellative (Magdalene) and the Peshitta renders ܡܓܕܠܝܬܐ without the Greek article; semantically identical, differing only in the article that neither version transmits.

Greek reads ἡ Ἰωσῆτος ('the [mother] of Joses') with the genitive form of the name, while the Vulgate has Joseph and the Peshitta ܕܝܘܣܐ; the variation between 'Joses' and 'Joseph' reflects a well-attested transmissional confusion of the two names in the manuscript tradition. The Peshitta supplies the demonstrative ܗܝ where Greek uses the article ἡ to express the implied genealogical relationship.

Greek ἐθεώρουν and Latin aspiciebant are both third-person plural imperfects ('they were watching'), whereas the Peshitta ܚܙܝ is a feminine plural perfect/participial form; the versions agree in subject and sense but differ in aspect, the Syriac favouring a simpler completed-action form against the durative imperfect of Greek and Latin.

Greek τέθειται is a perfect passive ('he has been laid'), the Vulgate poneretur an imperfect subjunctive in indirect question ('where he was being laid'), and the Peshitta ܕܐܬܬܣܝܡ an Ettaphal perfect passive ('where he was laid'); all express the burial location but diverge in mood and tense, the Latin alone shifting to the subjunctive as required by classical syntax of indirect interrogation. The paragraph marker ¶ in the Greek is editorial and has no versional counterpart.