the verbal action to reality.”35 If voice indicates the author’s perspective on the action as it relates to causality, mood indicates the author’s perspective on the action as it relates to reality. Three important conclusions can be drawn from this definition of mood for understanding mood in the Greek of the New Testament. First, mood, like other features of the Greek verb (tense, voice, person, and number), is indicated morphologically by the choice of a verbal ending. Mood indicates “morphologically-based