Mark 3 : 2

The Peshitta employs a periphrastic construction ܘܢܛܪܝܢ ܗܘܘ (active participle + auxiliary 'were') to render the Greek imperfect παρετήρουν, a common Syriac strategy for expressing continuous past action. The Vulgate observabant uses a simple imperfect, mirroring the Greek synthetic form.

The Peshitta uses the compound conditional particle ܕܐܢ (d-ʾen, 'that if') where Greek has simple εἰ and Latin si. This reflects standard Syriac syntax for indirect questions, adding the subordinating ܕ- prefix to mark the embedded clause more explicitly.

Greek uses the dative plural with article τοῖς σάββασιν ('on the Sabbaths') in pre-verbal position; Vulgate employs ablative plural sabbatis without article, also pre-verbal. The Peshitta places ܒܫܒܬܐ ('on the Sabbath') post-verbally, reflecting typical Syriac VSO word order, and uses the singular form (a collective idiom for the Sabbath institution).

Greek θεραπεύσει αὐτὸν ('he will heal him') and Vulgate curaret ('he might heal') place the verb before the object pronoun in their respective clauses. The Peshitta ܡܐܣܐ ܠܗ ('heals him') appears earlier in the conditional clause due to VSO syntax, with the object marked by the preposition ܠ- rather than accusative case.

Greek employs a purpose clause with ἵνα + subjunctive (ἵνα κατηγορήσωσιν αὐτοῦ, 'in order that they might accuse him'), and Vulgate mirrors this with ut + subjunctive (ut accusarent illum). The Peshitta collapses the entire purpose clause into a single prefixed imperfect verb ܢܩܛܪܓܘܢܝܗܝ ('they-might-accuse-him'), with the object pronoun suffixed directly to the verb—a characteristic Syriac compression that omits an explicit purpose particle.