Mark 4 : 40

The Vulgate inserts a colon after 'illis' to mark direct discourse, while Greek uses a raised dot (·) and Peshitta has no explicit punctuation marker. This reflects Latin scribal convention for introducing quoted speech.

Greek uses interrogative τί with adjective δειλοί and copula ἐστε ('Why fearful are you?'); Peshitta employs ܠܡܢܐ ܕܚܘܠܬܢܝܢ ܐܢܬܘܢ with explicit pronoun; Vulgate mirrors Greek word order with 'Quid timidi estis' plus interrogative punctuation. All three are semantically equivalent despite minor syntactic variation.

Greek οὔπω πῶς οὐκ ἔχετε πίστιν ('Still not how do you not have faith?') presents a complex double-negative construction. Peshitta restructures as ܗܟܢ ܘܠܡܢܐ ܠܝܬ ܒܟܘܢ ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ ('Thus and why is there not in you faith?'), using ܗܟܢ ('thus/so') and existential negation ܠܝܬ. Vulgate simplifies to 'necdum habetis fidem' ('not yet do you have faith'), eliminating the πῶς interrogative entirely. These represent three distinct rhetorical strategies for Jesus's rebuke.