Mark 4 : 18

The Peshitta omits the Greek ἄλλοι εἰσὶν ('others are') and Latin alii sunt, beginning directly with the demonstrative pronoun ܘܗܢܘܢ ('and these'). This represents a stylistic compression typical of Syriac narrative economy, eliminating the redundant copula construction in favor of immediate identification.

Greek uses an articular substantival participle construction (οἱ εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας σπειρόμενοι, 'those being sown into the thorns') with preposition εἰς governing accusative. Syriac employs the compound preposition ܕܒܝܬ ('among/in') with ܟܘܒܐ ('thorns') plus passive participle ܡܙܕܪܥܝܢ. Latin qui in spinas seminantur mirrors the Greek structure with a relative clause, though seminantur is finite rather than participial.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after seminantur to mark the transition from identification to explanation, a punctuation convention absent in both Greek and Syriac manuscript traditions of this period.

Greek and Latin place the demonstrative before the copula (οὗτοί εἰσιν / hi sunt), while Syriac reverses the order (ܗܠܝܢ ܐܢܘܢ, 'these they-are'). This reflects standard Syriac syntax where the enclitic copula ܐܢܘܢ typically follows its subject, whereas Greek and Latin prefer demonstrative-copula sequencing.