Mark 12 : 18

All three name the Sadducees, but their syntactic placement differs: Greek and Syriac position the subject immediately after the verb, whereas the Vulgate delays sadducæi to the end of the clause after the prepositional phrase ad eum, a word-order difference of stylistic rather than semantic weight.

Greek expresses 'to him' analytically with preposition plus pronoun (πρὸς αὐτόν), matched by the Vulgate ad eum, whereas Syriac compacts the same notion into the single prepositional form ܠܘܬܗ with attached pronominal suffix, a construction difference inherent to Semitic morphology.

Greek and Latin construct the denial with negative particle plus infinitive (μὴ εἶναι / non esse, 'that there is not'), forming an accusative-and-infinitive complement, while Syriac employs the existential negator ܠܝܬ ('there is no'), a particle of non-existence that achieves the same predicate denial through a distinct Semitic construction.

Greek ἐπηρώτων is a single imperfect verb conveying durative past action; Syriac achieves the same continuous aspect periphrastically with participle plus auxiliary ܡܫܐܠܝܢ ܗܘܘ, while the Vulgate interrogabant uses the synthetic imperfect, all three agreeing in aspect though differing in morphological strategy.

Greek λέγοντες and Vulgate dicentes are participles, while Syriac ܘܐܡܪܝܢ adds a coordinating conjunction ('and saying'), a typical Syriac paratactic chaining of finite/participial clauses; the Vulgate colon (index 15) marks the introduction of direct speech with no counterpart in the other witnesses.