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No dead person can resurrect Himself. Death is the complete absence of life and consciousness. Only someone alive and gifted with supernatural powers could have performed such a wondrous deed. The New Testament plainly reveals in many passages that it was God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead.
For example, the apostle Peter stated in his first sermon on the Day of Pentecost: "This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses" (Acts 2:32). Not long after, Peter repeated this vital testimony. He told the audience that they had "killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses" (Acts 3:15).
After his miraculous conversion, Paul continued to proclaim this same basic testimony: "God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus" (Acts 13:33; compare verse 37). He continued to declare this crucial truth as he traveled from city to city.
He later told skeptical Athenian intellectuals: "Because He [God] has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man [Jesus] whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead" (Acts 17:31).
Paul's and Peter's letters also testify to the Father's active role in this great event (Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 1:20; 1 Peter 1:3).
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