Mark 9 : 16

Greek aorist ἐπηρώτησεν and Latin perfect interrogavit render a punctiliar past, whereas Syriac employs the periphrastic ܡܫܐܠ ܗܘܐ (participle + ܗܘܐ), expressing durative/iterative past aspect — a stylistic feature of Syriac narrative rather than a semantic divergence.

Greek αὐτούς ('them') and Latin eos provide a pronominal object of the verb 'asked'; the Syriac instead supplies the explicit referent (the scribes) directly as the object and has no separate pronoun here.

Greek γραμματεῖς ('scribes') stands as a second accusative object clarifying whom Jesus addressed; Syriac ܠܣܦܪܐ renders the same noun with explicit object marker ܠ, but Latin omits any mention of the scribes here, leaving only the pronoun eos.

Greek συζητεῖτε is a synthetic second-person plural verb; Syriac analyses it into participle ܕܪܫܝܢ plus the independent pronoun ܐܢܬܘܢ ('you [pl.]'), a normal Syriac periphrastic construction, while Latin conquiritis carries the subject inflectionally.

Greek πρὸς αὐτούς ('with them') and the compact Syriac suffixed form ܥܡܗܘܢ both express reciprocal disputation with the scribes; the Vulgate instead reads inter vos ('among yourselves'), shifting the referent to the disciples — a notable interpretive variant in the object of the verb.

The Vulgate inserts a colon before the direct discourse; the Greek punctuation (raised dot after γραμματεῖς·) and pilcrow function similarly but are placed at a different juncture in the clause.

Latin closes the question with an interrogative mark, paralleled by the Greek ';' (question mark) folded into token αὐτούς;¶; the Syriac transmits no terminal punctuation token here.