02 Jan '20 16:36>
"So Jesus explained, 'I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself."
John 5:19
When we study carefully the life of Jesus it is a seamless oneness with the Father.
It is hard to tell who initiated what.
Sometimes it seems obvious that Jesus initiated nothing. At other times the unity is so seamless that it appears as Jesus initiating.
Take the quotation above the He could do NOTHING ... NOTHING apart from the Father.
The New Testament says both that God the Father raised Him from the dead and the He had the authority to rise from the dead.
"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down of Myself, I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from My Father." (John 10:17,18)
God the Father raised Jesus (Acts 2:24, 32; 3:15, 26; 4:10; 5:30; 10:40; 13:30, 33, 34, 37).
Yet in John 10 above and elsewhere He said He would raise up the temple of His body in three days.
"Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." (John 2:19)
Jehovah God is Jesus. Jesus is Jehovah God.