Did Jesus Raise Himself?

Non Trinitarian 

JESUS DID NOT RAISE HIMSELF - "THE GOD AND FATHER OF JESUS" (2 Cor.11:31, etc.) RAISED HIM.

Trinitarians, in their effort to “prove” that Jesus raised himself — and is therefore “God” (since Scripture says God raised Jesus) — often cite John 2:19–22.

In 2:19 Jesus is reported to have said:

"I will raise it up"

Trinitarians interpret this to mean he would resurrect himself.

But the very same passage presents clear evidence that it was God (the Father) who raised Jesus, not Jesus himself:

"When therefore he was raised from the dead..." - (Jn.2:22)

Notice how almost every major translation agrees:

“he was raised” — ASV, CSB, CSBA, CEB, CJB, CEV, DARBY, DLNT, ERV, EHV, ESV, EXB, GNT, HCSB, ICB, LSB, LEB, MSG, MEV, NABRE, NASB, NCV, NET, NIV, NLV, NLT, NRSVA, NTFE, RSV, TLV, VOICE, WEB, YLT, etc.

Or: “after he had been raised” — ISV, NIRV, NLV, WE, etc.

Let’s look at the Greek.

The phrase in John 2:22 is:

- - - ὅτε οὖν ἠγέρθη ἐκ νεκρῶν (hote oun ēgerthē ek nekrōn), which means “when therefore he was raised from the dead.”

The key verb here is ἠγέρθη (ēgerthē) — the aorist passive indicative of egeirō (“to raise up”).

The passive voice unmistakably means “was raised” — something done to Jesus, not something he did himself.

If John had wanted to say Jesus raised himself or arose by his own action, he would have used the active (ēgeiren) or middle voice, not the passive.

IN SHORT:

John 2:22 teaches that Jesus was raised by another (i.e., God). The Greek grammar DOES NOT ALLOW the interpretation that Jesus raised himself.