Mark 6 : 37

Greek employs the redundant Semitic construction ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν ('answering, he said'), whereas both Peshitta and Vulgate use a single verb of speaking (ܐܡܪ / ait), reflecting a more economical idiom in translation.

Vulgate inserts a colon after illis to mark direct discourse, a scribal convention absent in Greek and Peshitta manuscript traditions.

Greek καὶ λέγουσιν and Vulgate Et dixerunt use coordinating conjunction plus finite verb; Peshitta ܐܡܪܝܢ employs asyndetic construction (no conjunction), a common Syriac narrative pattern for rapid dialogue shifts.

Vulgate again inserts a colon (ei :) to mark the disciples' reply, whereas Greek and Peshitta use no punctuation marker between verb and indirect object.

Greek uses aorist participle ἀπελθόντες plus subjunctive ἀγοράσωμεν (deliberative question); Peshitta employs two coordinate imperfects (ܢܐܙܠ ܢܙܒܢ, 'let us go, let us buy'); Vulgate uses present participle Euntes plus subjunctive emamus—all three express the same deliberative sense with different syntactic strategies.

Greek places the genitive δηναρίων διακοσίων (denarii two-hundred) in natural attributive order; Vulgate inverts to ducentis denariis (two-hundred denarii); Peshitta mirrors Greek order ܕܡܐܬܝܢ ܕܝܢܪܝܢ—stylistic variation with no semantic impact.

Greek uses future indicative δώσομεν plus infinitive φαγεῖν ('we will give them to eat'); Vulgate mirrors this with dabimus + infinitive manducare; Peshitta employs imperfect ܘܢܬܠ ܠܗܘܢ ܠܥܣܝܢ ('and let us give them to eat'), continuing the cohortative mood from the prior clause—semantically equivalent but syntactically distinct.