The question about tense in the Greek indicative mood comes down to the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. If that theoretical distinction is held, we must ask if temporal expression is semantically encoded in indicative verbs, or if it is a pragmatic expression of verbs in context. For those who deny the existence of tense in the Greek indicative mood, it is chiefly because temporal reference is not a semantic value of the morphological form. This is why so many verbs behave in ways that