Who resurrected Jesus - the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit In John 2:19-22 Jesus tells the Jews that he will perform a miraculous sign by raising the temple of his body in three days.
In John 10:18 Jesus says he has authority to lay down his life and authority to take it up again.
Yet in Acts 2:24 it says that God raised Jesus from the dead.
This is confirmed in Romans 6:4 which says Jesus was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father.
Yet Romans 1:4 says that Jesus, who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.
And 1 Peter 3:18 says Jesus was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.
How do Trinitarian Christians explain this to people who neither understand nor believe the Trinity?
Discussing &quot;Whether Christ was the cause of His own Resurrection?&quot; (Summa Theologica III q. 53 a. 4), St. Thomas Aquinas writes (co.):

in consequence of death Christ's Godhead was not separated from His soul, nor from His flesh. Consequently, both the soul and the flesh of the dead Christ can be considered in two respects: (1) in respect of His Godhead; (2) in respect of His created nature. Therefore,

according to the virtue of the Godhead united to it, the body took back again the soul which it had laid aside, and the soul took back again the body which it had abandoned: and thus Christ rose by His own power. And this is precisely what is written (2 Cor. 13:4): &quot;For although He was crucified through&quot; our &quot;weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God.&quot;
But if we consider the body and soul of the dead Christ according to the power of created nature, they could not thus be reunited, but it was necessary for Christ to be raised up by God.


Responding to the objection that Christ was raised by another (e.g., by the Father or the Holy Ghost), St. Thomas writes (ibid. ad 1):

The Divine power is the same thing as the operation of the Father and the Son; accordingly these two things are mutually consequent, that Christ was raised up by the Divine power of the Father, and by His own power.