ContradictionsReading order 437Bible context 2 min read
Who raised Jesus from the dead?
Resurrection is attributed to Jesus' own action and to God, while Romans invokes the Spirit without simply naming it as a rival raiser.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Different attributions of resurrection agency do not expressly exclude cooperation or shared action.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jesus promises to raise the temple of his body
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 2:19-21
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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God the Father raises Jesus from death
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:24
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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