Mark 8 : 38

Greek employs a conditional relative construction (ὃς γὰρ ἐὰν, 'for whoever if'); the Peshitta collapses this into the universalising substantive ܟܠ ܓܝܪ ('for everyone who'), while the Vulgate Qui enim renders a simple relative without explicit conditional particle. All three express the same protasis.

Greek uses the aorist passive subjunctive ἐπαισχυνθῇ in a single word; the Vulgate renders it periphrastically with confusus fuerit (perfect subjunctive of the deponent periphrasis), and the Syriac ܕܢܒܗܬ uses an imperfect with relative prefix — equivalent in force but morphologically divergent.

Greek καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους ('and my words') uses article plus possessive adjective plus plural noun; the Syriac compresses the entire phrase into a single inflected form ܘܒܡܠܝ ('and in my words') with prepositional and pronominal affixes, while the Vulgate et verba mea preserves the analytic structure. The Syriac also continues the locative ܒ- from the prior verb.

Greek and Latin both place the descriptive adjectives after the demonstrative (γενεᾷ ταύτῃ / generatione ista), whereas the Syriac orders the demonstrative ܗܕܐ immediately after ܒܫܪܒܬܐ and then defers the qualifying adjectives. The locative preposition is incorporated prefixally in Syriac (ܒ-) but stands as a free word ἐν / in in Greek and Latin.

The Greek pairs the adjectives in the order 'adulterous and sinful' (μοιχαλίδι καὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ), matching the Latin adultera et peccatrice; the Syriac inverts the sequence to ܚܛܝܬܐ ܘܓܝܪܬܐ ('sinful and adulterous'), a transposition of the two attributes without semantic change.

Greek expresses 'the Son of Man' with a doubly articular genitive construction (ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου); the Vulgate Filius hominis omits articles per Latin usage, and the Syriac ܒܪܗ ܕܐܢܫܐ uses a proleptic pronominal suffix plus dalath ('his son, namely of man'), a typical Aramaic genitive idiom.

Greek uses the future passive ἐπαισχυνθήσεται to express the apodosis; the Syriac ܢܒܗܬ employs an imperfect (future) without a distinct passive morphology, and the Vulgate confundetur is a future passive matching the Greek. The Syriac and Greek verbs derive from semantically parallel roots for 'shame.'

Greek and Latin use a free preposition plus article plus noun (ἐν τῇ δόξῃ / in gloria); the Syriac incorporates the preposition prefixally into ܒܫܘܒܚܐ, a single word, omitting any explicit article in keeping with the determined emphatic state.

Greek τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ and Latin Patris sui both express 'of his Father' analytically; the Syriac ܕܐܒܘܗܝ combines the genitive marker dalath with a pronominal suffix into one word, a standard Aramaic compression of the possessive genitive.

Greek μετὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων uses preposition plus article plus genitive plural; the Vulgate cum angelis matches without article, while the Syriac ܥܡ ܡܠܐܟܘܗܝ attaches a pronominal suffix ('with his angels') not present in the Greek or Latin, a minor possessive expansion.

Greek uses an attributive repetition of the article τῶν ἁγίων ('the holy ones'); the Vulgate sanctis and Syriac ܩܕܝܫܐ both render the adjective 'holy' without the articular reduplication, the Syriac standing in the determined emphatic state.