Jesus' words were, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." Period. He never said, "from the dead." He never said anything about anyone destroying "...this body." He used the term "... this temple."
Matthew 16:21
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day
be raised to life.
Here are examples where someone lost their life or the use of their limbs and then had the life restored to them and, using the power that had been restored to them by their Heavenly Father, THEY ROSE THEMSELVES UP:
Example #1:
John 5:8 Rise up and walk!
5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”
9
And at once the man was healed, and he [the man who was healed] took up his bed and walked.
Example 2:
John 11:43-44 Lazarus, COME FORTH!
When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth.
Example #3:
Acts 9:40 Tabitha, get up
Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, "Tabitha, get up." She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter
SHE sat [RAISED herself] up.
Example #4:
Matthew 9: My daughter has just died
18 While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
23 And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
24 he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.
25 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and
the girl aroseExample #5:
Acts 3 " ... what I do have I give to you..."
6 But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”
7 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
8 And
leaping UP HE STOOD and BEGAN TO WALK, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God
And there are a FEW more examples where spiritually dead people who have had their life returned to them and USED IT TO WALK IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT. They weren't like the man with the talents who did NOTHING with what had been given him.
Can anyone think of anymore examples?