Mark 9 : 33

Greek and Latin separate the conjunction from the verb (Καὶ ἦλθον / Et venerunt), whereas Syriac fuses the conjunction and the third-person plural perfect into a single inflected form ܘܐܬܘ ('and they came'), a normal feature of Syriac morphology.

The transition is handled differently: Greek repeats καί, Syriac employs the temporal subordinator ܘܟܕ ('and when'), while the Vulgate introduces a relative-temporal frame Qui cum ('who, when'), recasting the coordinated Greek clause into Latin hypotaxis.

Greek uses a prepositional phrase plus a circumstantial aorist participle (ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ γενόμενος, 'having come to be in the house'), Syriac renders a finite verb ܥܠܘ ܠܒܝܬܐ ('they entered the house'), and the Vulgate uses the locative adverb domi with the subjunctive essent ('when they were at home') — semantically equivalent but syntactically distinct constructions.

Greek and Latin express the imperfect with a single inflected form (ἐπηρώτα / interrogabat), while Syriac forms a periphrastic past with the participle plus the auxiliary ܡܫܐܠ ܗܘܐ ('was asking'), the standard Syriac means of marking durative past action.

The Clementine Vulgate inserts a colon before the direct discourse; neither the Greek nor Syriac transmit a corresponding punctuation token, the Greek instead marking the question only by the high point and final interrogative.

All three read 'on the way' (ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ / ܒܐܘܪܚܐ / in via), but Greek and Latin place the phrase before the verb whereas Syriac postpones it after the verb, reflecting differing default clause orders; Syriac also lacks the article supplied by the Greek τῇ.

Greek combines a reflexive prepositional phrase (πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς, 'among yourselves') with the verb διελογίζεσθε ('were you discussing'); Syriac renders the verb periphrastically (ܡܬܚܫܒܝܢ ܗܘܝܬܘܢ, 'were you reasoning') and supplies the reciprocal ܒܝܢܬܟܘܢ ('among yourselves'), while the Vulgate compresses the whole to a single verb tractabatis ('you were debating') and omits the reflexive phrase entirely, a notable Latin abbreviation.

The interrogative is marked in Greek by the semicolon attached to διελογίζεσθε; and in the Vulgate by a separate question-mark token, an editorial difference of orthographic convention rather than text.