Mark 5 : 14

Greek opens with the redundant pairing καὶ...δέ ('and...but/now') plus the substantival article οἱ; the Vulgate renders the connective and subject with the relative pronoun Qui plus the adversative autem; the Peshitta compresses both connective and subject into the single demonstrative ܘܗܢܘܢ ('and they'), a typical Syriac economy.

Greek uses a present active participle βόσκοντες ('feeding') functioning attributively; the Vulgate matches with the imperfect pascebant; the Syriac employs a relative participle ܕܪܥܝܢ followed by the auxiliary ܗܘܘ to form a periphrastic past-durative, the standard Syriac equivalent of the Greek imperfective participle.

Greek and Latin both use a preposition of direction with the accusative (εἰς τὴν πόλιν / in civitatem), implying motion of the report 'into' the city; the Syriac uses the locative ܒ- ('in the city'), a stative rather than directional construction, though the sense is identical.

Greek and Latin both repeat the directional preposition before the plural 'fields/country' (εἰς τοὺς ἀγρούς / in agros); the Syriac introduces the emphatic ܘܐܦ ('and also') and uses the plural ܒܩܘܪܝܐ ('in the villages'), a lexical shift from open countryside to inhabited hamlets characteristic of Syriac geography.

Greek ἦλθον ('they came/went') is a general verb of motion; both the Syriac ܘܢܦܩܘ and the Vulgate egressi sunt specify 'they went out,' an interpretive sharpening shared by the two versions against the unmarked Greek verb.

Greek phrases the indirect question fully as τί ἐστιν τὸ γεγονός ('what it is that has happened') with present copula and perfect participle; the Vulgate matches with quid esset factum (imperfect subjunctive); the Syriac compresses to ܡܕܡ ܕܗܘܐ ('the thing that happened'), substituting the indefinite ܡܕܡ for the interrogative and omitting an explicit copula.

The Greek paragraph marker (¶) attached to γεγονός closes the pericope, whereas the Vulgate's terminal colon (':') signals a continuation into the following clause; the Peshitta carries no comparable punctuation here, reflecting differing editorial sense-division across the traditions.