Mark 8 : 5

The Vulgate inserts a colon after the object pronoun 'eos' to mark the direct discourse boundary, while Greek uses a raised dot (·) and Peshitta has no punctuation mark at this juncture.

Greek uses accusative πόσους ἄρτους with ἔχετε in a direct object construction; Syriac employs an existential predicate ܐܝܬ ܠܟܘܢ ('there is to you') with ܠܚܡܝܢ as subject, a typical Semitic possessive idiom. Latin mirrors the Greek structure with 'Quot panes habetis' but adds a question mark for punctuation.

Greek includes the article οἱ and the postpositive conjunction δὲ to mark the subject shift and contrast ('but they'), a standard Greek narrative device. Both Peshitta and Vulgate omit these particles, proceeding directly to the verb of response.

Greek εἶπαν is a simple aorist third-person plural; Peshitta ܐܡܪܝܢ ܠܗ adds the prepositional phrase 'to him' as an explicit indirect object, clarifying the addressee. Vulgate 'Qui dixerunt' employs a relative pronoun 'Qui' as subject and adds a colon to introduce the direct quotation.