Mark 14 : 44

The Peshitta omits the postpositive conjunction δέ / autem, beginning the sentence directly with the verb. This is a characteristic Syriac stylistic preference for asyndetic construction where Greek and Latin employ connective particles.

Greek uses an articular participle construction (ὁ παραδιδοὺς αὐτόν, 'the one delivering him up'); Latin employs a simple noun (traditor ejus, 'his betrayer'); Peshitta uses a double construction with both a participle and a relative clause (ܡܫܠܡܢܐ ܗܘ ܕܡܫܠܡ, 'the betrayer who was betraying'), creating semantic emphasis through redundancy.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after dicens to mark the beginning of direct speech, while Greek uses a raised dot (·) and Peshitta employs no explicit punctuation marker. This reflects differing scribal conventions for indicating quotation boundaries.

Greek employs a relative pronoun with the modal particle ἄν to express indefiniteness (ὃν ἂν, 'whomever'); Latin uses the compound relative quemcumque; Peshitta uses a simple relative pronoun ܗܘ ('he who') with the verb carrying the indefinite sense, a typical Semitic strategy for expressing generalized reference.

Greek uses the aorist subjunctive φιλήσω (first person singular, 'I may kiss'); Latin employs the future perfect osculatus fuero ('I will have kissed'), reflecting Latin's preference for the future perfect in indefinite temporal clauses; Peshitta uses ܕܢܫܩ ܐܢܐ ('that I kiss I'), with the explicit first-person pronoun ܐܢܐ added for emphasis, a common Syriac construction.

Greek and Latin both use an emphatic pronoun construction (αὐτός ἐστιν / ipse est, 'he himself is'); Peshitta uses the demonstrative pronoun ܗܘܝܘ ('he is'), which functions as both copula and demonstrative, achieving the same emphatic effect through a more compact Semitic construction.

The Peshitta omits the coordinating conjunction καί / et between the two imperatives, using simple juxtaposition (ܐܘܚܕܘܗܝ ܙܗܝܪܐܝܬ ܘܐܘܒܠܘܗܝ). The conjunction ܘ appears only before the second verb, creating an asyndetic-then-syndetic pattern typical of Syriac narrative style.

Greek and Latin place the adverb after the verb (ἀπάγετε ἀσφαλῶς / ducite caute, 'lead away securely'); Peshitta places the adverb ܙܗܝܪܐܝܬ ('carefully') before the final verb ܘܐܘܒܠܘܗܝ ('and lead him'), reflecting the Semitic preference for adverbial modifiers to precede the verbs they modify.