Mark 1 : 16

Greek pairs the participle παράγων with the postpositive δέ ('and as he was passing along'); the Peshitta renders the temporal clause with ܘܟܕ ܡܗܠܟ ('and while he was walking'), supplying the conjunction at the head; the Vulgate uses the bare present participle præteriens. The Greek connective δέ has no separate equivalent in either version, being absorbed into the opening conjunction.

Greek παρά + accusative ('beside, along') and Latin secus ('alongside') denote proximity; the Peshitta ܚܕܪܝ (from root kh-d-r, 'around, about') stresses circuit or vicinity, a slightly broader spatial nuance characteristic of Syriac local prepositions.

Greek and Latin carry the article/definiteness (τὴν θάλασσαν, mare), while Syriac ܝܡܐ stands unmarked, as the emphatic state in Syriac does not require a separate article. The lexical equivalence (sea) is exact.

Greek uses the cognate figura etymologica ἀμφιβάλλοντας ἀμφίβληστρον ('casting a casting-net'), denoting a single round throw-net; the Peshitta ܕܪܡܝܢ ܡܨܝܕܬܐ ('casting a net', root ts-y-d) and Latin mittentes retia ('casting nets', plural) both flatten the etymological wordplay, with the Vulgate further generalising to the plural retia.

Greek ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ uses ἐν + dative for location within the sea, matched by Latin in mare (here with accusative of motion 'into'); the Peshitta ܒܝܡܐ collapses the article and preposition into a single proclitic. The trailing Greek high-point and Latin parenthesis differ only in editorial punctuation.

The explanatory clause 'for they were (fishermen)' is rendered with the imperfect ἦσαν + γάρ in Greek and erant enim in Latin; Syriac employs the periphrastic ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ ܗܘܘ ('they were being') with the postpositive ܓܝܪ, a standard Syriac construction for backgrounded existential statements.