Mark 3 : 11

Greek uses articular nominative construction (τὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἀκάθαρτα, 'the unclean spirits') as subject. Peshitta employs a relative clause with existential predicate (ܘܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܐܝܬ ܗܘܝ ܠܗܘܢ ܡܚܘܬܐ ܕܪܘܚܐ ܛܢܦܬܐ, 'and those who had affliction of unclean spirits'), shifting focus from the spirits themselves to the possessed persons. Vulgate mirrors Greek with simple nominative (spiritus immundi).

Vulgate inserts a colon after the conjunction (et clamabant :), creating a stronger pause before the direct speech. Greek and Peshitta use simple coordination without such punctuation break.

Greek and Vulgate include the recitative ὅτι / colon to introduce direct discourse. Peshitta omits any introductory particle, moving directly from ܘܐܡܪܝܢ ('and they said') to the quoted speech ܐܢܬ ܗܘ ('You are'), a common Syriac idiom for direct quotation.

Greek and Peshitta preserve the emphatic pronoun-copula construction (σὺ εἶ / ܐܢܬ ܗܘ, 'You yourself are'), stressing the identity claim. Vulgate omits the entire clause, truncating the verse after the second colon and leaving the demons' confession unrecorded in this witness—a significant textual divergence requiring manuscript collation.

Greek transmits the full christological confession ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ('the Son of God') with double article. Peshitta attests ܒܪܗ ܕܐܠܗܐ ('Son of God') in construct state. Vulgate omits this entire predicate nominative, ending the verse prematurely—either through homoioteleuton, liturgical abbreviation, or reliance on a defective Greek Vorlage.