Raising the Dead, Giver of Life

God: Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.  (Gen. 2:7)

Jesus: While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. "Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore." But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” When He entered the house, He did not allow anyone to go in with Him except Peter, John, James, and the child’s father and mother. Meanwhile, everyone was weeping and mourning for her. But Jesus said, “Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep.” And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead. But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Child, get up!” Her spirit returned, and at once she got up. And He directed that she be given something to eat. Her parents were astounded, but Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.  (Luke 8:49-56); (Matt. 9:18, 23-26), and (Mark 5:35-43)

God: See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.  (Deut. 32:39)  

Jesus: As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, He had compassion and said, “Do not weep.” Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!” The dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him to his mother. A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”  (Luke 7:12-17)

God: He stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!” And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.  (1 Kings 17:21-22) 

Jesus: Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. (John 2:19-22)

God: You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.  (Neh. 9:6)

Jesus: So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.” “Sir,” the official said, “come before my child dies.” “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed. And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour." Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.  (John 4:46-53)

‍God: This is what God the LORD says-He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it.  (Isa. 42:5)

Jesus: For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.  (John 5:21)

God: And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.  (Matt. 3:9);  (Luke 3:8)  

Jesus: I tell you, the hour is coming and has come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son, and those who hear will live. (John 5:25)

God: He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross. But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.  (Acts 2:23-24)   Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay. God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.  (Acts 2:31-32)   Let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: 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 fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.  (Acts 5:30)  

Jesus: And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”  (John 6:39-40)

God: The promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be to all Abraham’s offspring— not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is father of us all. As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”  He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.  (Rom. 4:16-18)   Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham, but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.  (Rom. 4:23-25) if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  (Rom. 10:9)

‍Jesus:‍ ‍Jesus replied. “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.   (John 6:44)

God: If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith. In that case, we also are exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.  (1 Cor. 15:13-15)  

Jesus: Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood  has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.  (John 6:54)

God: Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. (2 Cor. 1:9)

Jesus: The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I  have received from My Father.” (John 10:17-18)

God: The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,  (Eph. 1:17; 19-20).  

Jesus: Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and  believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?   (John 11:25-26)

God: And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. (Col. 2:12)

Jesus: “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by  now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of  the dead man. “It has already been four days." Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed,  you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward  and said, “Father, I thank You that You have  heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me, but I  say this for the benefit of the people standing  here, so they may believe that You sent Me.” After Jesus had said this, He called out in a  loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The man who had been dead came out with his  hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.  (John 11:39-44)

God: and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.  (1 Thess. 1:10)  

Jesus: Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus whom He had raised from the dead. So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and  Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.  (John 12:1-2)

God: I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate: (1 Tim. 6:13).  

Jesus: For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. (1 Thess. 4:16)

God: Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,  (Heb. 13:20).

Holy Spirit: ‍ ‍The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.   (John 6:63)

God: Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.  (1 Peter 1:21)  

Holy Spirit: For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,  (1 Peter 3:18).

God: By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. (1 Cor. 6:14)

Holy Spirit: And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.  (Rom. 8:11)

These passages demonstrate that Jesus possesses the very power over life that belongs to God, providing further testimony that Jesus and God are one. The One who has authority over death is worthy of our faith and hope in the promise of eternal life.