The following texts reveal the New Testament emphasis on who raised Yeshua from the grave. They also show how central was the resurrection to the sermons of the apostles in Acts and in Paul's letters. By the time of later NT works, such as Hebrews, it was an assumed doctrine within the Messianic message to Israel and the Gentile world.
In Romans 6:4 the "instrument" of raising Yeshua is God's Glory (Grk doxa; Heb kavod). In 1 Corinthians 6:14 it is God's Power (Grk dunamis; Heb gevurah). In Romans 8:11 it is God's Spirit (Grk pneuma; Heb ruach). Otherwise, the NT simply says God raised him.
Yeshua's raising from the dead was a passive action on his part. He never predicted, "I will raise myself," but said, "After I have been raised . . . " (Matt 26:32). It was God, his Father, who initiated the miracle.
[For an extended study on resurrection in the Hebrew Bible, see The Third Day: Resurrected Patterns.]
Texts are grouped into three lists: Acts, Paul's letters, non-Pauline documents.
Acts 2:24 — God raised him up again, putting an end to the agony of death
Acts 2:32 — This Yeshua God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses
Acts 3:15 — the Prince of Life [is] the one whom God raised from the dead
Acts 4:10 — Yeshua Messiah the Nazarene . . . whom God raised from the dead
Acts 5:30 — The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua
Acts 10:40 — God raised him up on the third day, and granted that he should become visible
Acts 13:30 — God raised him from the dead
Acts 13:33 — God had fulfilled his promise to our children in that he raised up Yeshua
Acts 13:34 — He raised him up from the dead, no more to return to decay
Acts 13:37 — He whom God raised up did not undergo decay
Acts 17:31 — He fixed a day in which he will judge the world . . . through a man whom he has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead
Romans 4:24 — [we are] those who believe in him who raised Yeshua from the dead
Romans 6:4 — Messiah was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father
Romans 8:11 — He who raised Messiah Yeshua from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit
Romans 8:34 — Messiah Yeshua is he who died, yes, rather who was raised
Romans 10:9 — If you . . . believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved
1 Corinthians 6:14 — God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up by his Power
1 Corinthians 15:15 — God . . . raised Messiah
2 Corinthians 4:14 — He who raised the Lord Yeshua will raise us also with Yeshua and will present us with you
Galatians 1:1 — Paul . . . sent . . . by Yeshua Messiah, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead
Ephesians 1:20 — He raised him from the dead, and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places
Ephesians 2:4, 6 — God . . . raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places, in Messiah Yeshua
Colossians 2:12 — You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead
1 Thessalonians 1:10 — To wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, that is Yeshua, who delivers us from the wrath to come
Hebrews 13:20 — The God of peace . . . brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Yeshua our Lord
1 Peter 1:21— Through him [you] are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory
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Three Greek words are used in the NT for "resurrection": anastasis (stand up, rise), egersis (from egeiro, wake up, raise, lift up), exanastasis (get up).
• anastasis — Matt 22:23, 28, 30, 31; Mark 12:18, 23; Luke 2:34; 14:14; 20:27, 33, 35, 36; John 5:29; 11:24, 25; Acts 1:22; 2:31; 4:2, 33; 17:18, 32; 23:6, 8; 24:15, 21; 26:23; Rom 1:4; 6:5; 1 Cor 15:12, 13, 21, 42; Phil 3:10; 2 Tim 2:18; Heb 6:2; 11:35; 1 Pet 1:3; 3:21; Rev 20:5, 6.
• egersis — Matt 27:53
• exanastasis — Phil 3:11
