Nevertheless, both McKay and Porter’s versions of stative aspect offer a vastly improved approach to the Greek perfect compared to the traditional view. A third alternative is to regard the Greek perfect as imperfective in aspect, as put forth by Evans and myself.33 Imperfective aspect is used to depict actions internally, as though unfolding. One of the strengths of the imperfective aspect approach to the perfect is that the 48 percent of perfects in the New Testament that are rendered by the ESV