Mark 12 : 38

Greek ἔλεγεν is a single imperfect verb; the Peshitta renders the past-continuous sense periphrastically with ܐܡܪ ܗܘܐ ('was saying'), the standard Syriac construction for the imperfect, while the Vulgate uses the simple imperfect dicebat.

The Greek places the dative pronoun αὐτοῖς before the prepositional phrase; the Peshitta ܠܗܘܢ follows the verb after the periphrasis, and the Vulgate eis follows dicebat — a difference of word order rather than sense.

Greek and Latin render the phrase analytically (ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ / in doctrina) with explicit preposition and article, whereas the Peshitta compresses preposition, noun, and possessive suffix into a single word ܘܒܝܘܠܦܢܗ ('and in his teaching'), a typical feature of Syriac morphology.

Greek uses an attributive participial construction τῶν θελόντων ('who desire'); the Vulgate renders it with a relative clause qui volunt, and the Peshitta likewise with a relative-marked verb ܕܨܒܝܢ — semantically equivalent but built on differing syntactic strategies (participle vs. finite relative clause).

The conjunction καί / et joins the two desiderata; the Peshitta fuses the connective into the verb ܘܪܚܡܝܢ ('and they love'), introducing an additional verb of affection not explicit in Greek or Latin, which simply continue the governing verb θελόντων/volunt.

Greek ἀσπασμούς is a concrete plural noun ('greetings'); the Peshitta renders it with ܫܠܡܐ ('peace/greeting', the Semitic šlama salutation), and the Vulgate uses the passive infinitive salutari ('to be greeted'), shifting from a noun to a verbal construction.

Greek and Latin use the plural (ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς / in foro reflects the public-spaces idiom), while the Peshitta ܒܫܘܩܐ stands in the singular ('in the marketplace'); Syriac and Latin compress the article-bearing Greek phrase into prepositional forms without a separate article.