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Mark 9 : 28

EN When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

ES Y como él entró en casa, sus discípulos le preguntaron aparte: ¿Por qué nosotros no pudimos echarle fuera?

ZH-HANS 耶稣进了屋子，门徒就暗暗地问他说：「我们为什么不能赶出他去呢？」

ZH-HANT 耶穌進了屋子，門徒就暗暗地問他說：「我們為甚麼不能趕出他去呢？」

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construction All three attest
Greek NT Καὶ
Peshitta ܟܕ ܕܝܢ
Vulgate Et cum

Greek opens with the simple coordinating καί followed by a genitive absolute; the Peshitta renders the temporal clause with ܟܕ ('when') plus the postpositive particle ܕܝܢ ('but/now'), while the Vulgate uses Et with the subordinating cum. The Syriac ܕܝܢ adds a mild adversative nuance absent from the Greek and Latin.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ
Peshitta ܥܠ
Vulgate introisset

Greek expresses the action with a genitive-absolute aorist participle plus pronoun (εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ); both Peshitta ܥܠ and Vulgate introisset render it with a finite verb governed by the temporal conjunction, a syntactic simplification of the Greek participial construction.

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expansion Peshitta only
Peshitta ܝܫܘܥ

The Peshitta makes the implicit subject explicit by inserting the proper name ܝܫܘܥ ('Jesus'), whereas the Greek and Latin leave the subject of the entering verb pronominal/embedded. This is a characteristic Syriac clarifying expansion.

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idiom All three attest
Greek NT κατ᾽ (kat᾽)
Peshitta ܒܠܚܘܕܝܗܘܢ
Vulgate secreto

Greek uses the adverbial prepositional phrase κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ('privately'); the Vulgate renders it with the single adverb secreto and the Peshitta with ܒܠܚܘܕܝܗܘܢ ('by themselves'), each an idiomatic equivalent expressing the notion of privacy.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἰδίαν
Peshitta ܫܐܠܘܗܝ
Vulgate interrogabant

All three witnesses use an imperfect 'were asking' (ἐπηρώτων / interrogabant), but the Peshitta ܫܐܠܘܗܝ already incorporates the object pronoun and stands earlier in the clause, reflecting Semitic verb-initial word order versus the Greek and Latin sequence.

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punctuation Two witnesses
Greek NT αὐτόν·
Vulgate Quare

The Greek high point (·) after αὐτόν and the Vulgate colon both mark the transition to direct speech; the Peshitta carries no equivalent punctuation token and absorbs the object pronoun into the verb ܫܐܠܘܗܝ.

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lexical All three attest
Greek NT οὐκ
Peshitta ܐܫܟܚܢ
Vulgate ejicere

Greek ἠδυνήθημεν (from δύναμαι, 'to be able') and Latin potuimus express ability directly; the Peshitta ܐܫܟܚܢ derives from the root sh-k-kh ('to find/be able'), a Syriac idiom in which 'finding' the capacity stands for 'being able'.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT ἠδυνήθημεν ἐκβαλεῖν
Peshitta ܠܡܦܩܘܬܗ
Vulgate eum

Greek separates the infinitive ἐκβαλεῖν from the neuter object αὐτό ('it', the spirit) and Latin likewise distinguishes ejicere eum; the Peshitta fuses the infinitive and the object suffix into a single form ܠܡܦܩܘܬܗ ('to cast it/him out'), and its pronominal suffix is grammatically masculine rather than the Greek neuter.

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punctuation Two witnesses
Greek NT ἐκβαλεῖν

The Greek question mark on αὐτό; and the Vulgate's separate interrogative mark close the disciples' question; the Peshitta has no discrete punctuation token, leaving the interrogative force signalled solely by the opening ܠܡܢܐ.