Mark 14 : 53

The Peshitta uniquely identifies the high priest as Caiaphas (ܩܝܦܐ), an expansion not present in the Greek NA28 or the Vulgate. This represents a clarifying gloss typical of Syriac tradition, harmonizing with the broader passion narrative where Caiaphas is explicitly named elsewhere (cf. Matt 26:57, John 18:13-14).

Greek uses the compound noun ἀρχιερέα ('high priest'); Syriac employs a construct phrase ܪܒ ܟܗܢܐ (literally 'chief of priests'); Latin uses the adjective-noun phrase summum sacerdotem. All three express the same office through different morphological strategies.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after 'summum sacerdotem,' creating a stronger syntactic break between the two clauses. Neither the Greek nor the Peshitta tradition marks such a division, treating the verse as a continuous narrative flow.

Greek αὐτῷ and Syriac ܠܘܬܗ both explicitly mark the dative/prepositional object ('to him'), whereas the Vulgate omits this pronoun, relying on the intransitive sense of convenerunt. This represents a stylistic preference in Latin for economy where context suffices.

Greek lists the three groups in the order 'chief priests, elders, scribes' (ἀρχιερεῖς, πρεσβύτεροι, γραμματεῖς); the Vulgate follows this sequence (sacerdotes, scribæ, seniores) with minor reordering of scribes and elders; the Peshitta inverts to 'chief priests, scribes, elders' (ܪܒܝ ܟܗܢܐ, ܣܦܪܐ, ܩܫܝܫܐ). This word-order variation reflects differing rhetorical emphases but does not alter the semantic content.