John 13:4 EGEIRETAI EK TOU DEIPNOU: why is EGEIRETAI passive?

From: Jonathan Robie (74144.2360@compuserve.com)
Date: Sat Aug 17 1996 - 12:07:37 EDT


In my CCATT morphological database, EGEIRETAI is marked as present passive
indicative in John 13:4, "egeiretai ek tou deipnou"...

What does the use of the passive mean in this context?

Jonathan
"The Bible question man" (grin!)



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