while what FRED says is true , some of us have been reading nothing but bible for years upon years
daily and for hours .
YOU NEEDS to read the gospel of JOHN budrow .
NO man takes my LIFE from me
I have the POWER to lay it down
and i have the POWER to raise it up . OH YES JESUS SAID THAT . HE SURE DID .
Show one example that says Jesus or the Son of God actually performed an action or was somehow involved in his own resurrection. Without that, it means Jesus gave a prophecy about the Father resurrecting him.
Here's 21 verses where someone other than Jesus is resurrecting Jesus. I challenge you to show even 1 verse about a post-mortem Jesus or Son of God resurrecting Jesus.
Acts 2:32 – "This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses."
Acts 3:15 – "And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses."
Acts 3:26 – "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you..."
Acts 4:10 – "Be it known unto you all... that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead..."
Acts 5:30 – "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree."
Acts 10:40 – "Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly..."
Acts 13:30 – "But God raised him from the dead."
Acts 13:33 – "God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus..."
Acts 13:34 – "And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead..."
Acts 17:31 – "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead."
Romans 6:4 – "Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father..."
Romans 10:9 – "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
1 Corinthians 6:14 – "And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power."
1 Corinthians 15:15 – "Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ..."
2 Corinthians 4:14 – "Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus..."
Galatians 1:1 – "Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead)."
Ephesians 1:17, 20 – "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory... Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead..."
Colossians 2:12 – "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead."
1 Thessalonians 1:10 – "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead..."
1 Peter 1:21 – "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead..."