Jesus hoped in God to resurrect him. That was the hope of Jesus. We know this is true because Jesus prayed from Hades "My flesh will live in hope because you will not abandon my soul in Hades."
Since Jesus lived in the hope that God would resurrect him, shouldn’t we live with the same hope? He died with that hope, and God didn't disappoint him. Indeed, God won't disappoint anyone who hopes in the Resurrection.
Jesus hoped in God for the same reason we must hope in God: because we all have to face an invincible foe, Death. God will help anyone who trusts in him, but those who will not trust him will have to face Death on their own. So far, Death has not been vanquished by anyone but Jesus. And he vanquished it by trusting in God!
God raised him [Jesus] up, having brought to an end the pains of Death…
David says with reference to him [Jesus], ‘I saw the Lord [Father God] before me continually… my flesh will live in hope, because you [God] will not abandon my soul in Hades…
[David] spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay. This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses (Acts 2:24-27, 31-32; LEB).
From Hades, Jesus proclaimed that his body, which was lying in the grave, 'lived in hope.' What does that mean? It means that Jesus trusted God not to abandon his soul in Hades. Indeed, he had a brief two-day stay there, as a bodiless soul, and God joined Christ's soul back to Christ's body early on the third day. He was alive again!
God responded to Jesus' petition. He did not allow Jesus' body to decompose. With the support of Nicodemus who contributed a generous supply of oils and cloth for embalming Christ's body, the female disciples wrapped Jesus up. Then, within three days, God resurrected our Lord in a body that had not been subject to any decomposition. As Acts 2 says, 'nor did his flesh experience decay.'
We are obligated to emphasize that it was God the Father who resurrected Jesus because the Bible emphasizes it, repeating this fact 27 different times. This article contains each of the 27 passages.
God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it (Acts 2:32).
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.
You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. You killed the Author of Life, but God raised him from the Dead (Acts 3:13-15).
It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the Dead, that this man stands before you healed (Acts 4:10).
The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the Dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a Cross (Acts 5:30).
They killed him by hanging him on a Cross, but God raised him from the Dead on the third day and caused him to be seen (Acts 10:39-40).
When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the Cross and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the Dead... (Acts 13:29-30).
What God promised our ancestors he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: “‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’
God raised him from the Dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
So it is also stated elsewhere: ‘You will not let your holy one see decay.’
Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed. But the one whom God raised from the Dead did not see decay (Acts 13:32-37).
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the World with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the Dead (Acts 17:30-31).
Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the Dead? “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth... that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the Dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles (Acts 26:8-9, 23).
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the Dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life (Romans 6:4).
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the Dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 1:17-20).
... your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the Living and True God, and to wait for his Son from Heaven, whom he raised from the Dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10).
During the days of Jesus’ life on Earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the One who could save him from Death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission (Hebrews 5:7).
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will (Hebrews 13:20-21, ESV).
... through the Spirit of Holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the Dead: Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 1:4).
The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the Dead (Romans 4:23-24).
“The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the Dead, you will be saved (Romans 10:8-9).
The final three examples below use the passive voice, meaning that Jesus did not perform the action of raising. Rather, he received the action. The Bible never says Jesus raises himself. It says he was 'raised.'
“The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again”... He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the Dead on the third day (Luke 24:7,46).
Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us (Romans 8:34).
Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the Dead, descended from David. This is my Gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal (2 Timothy 2:8-9).
These verses should not be difficult. At this point, you should easily be able to deduce who it was who 'raised' Jesus from the Dead, even in passages where that One is not named.
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