Tractates on the Gospel of John

¹¹ And who are these dead whom the Father and the Son quicken? Are they the same of whom we have spoken— Lazarus, or that widow's son, or the ruler of the synagogue's daughter? For we know that these were raised by Christ the Lord. It is some other thing that He means to signify to us—namely, the resurrection of the dead, which we all look for; not that resurrection which certain have had, that the rest might believe. For Lazarus rose to die again; we shall rise again to live for ever.

Is it the Father that effects such a resurrection, or the Son? Nay verily, the Father in the Son. Consequently the Son, and the Father in the Son. Whence do we prove that He speaks of this resurrection? When He had said, “As the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them, so also the Son quickens whom He will.” Lest we should understand here that resurrection which He performs for a miracle, not for eternal life, He proceeded, saying, “For the Father judges not any man, but all judgment has He given to the Son.”

What is this? He was speaking of the resurrection of the dead, that “as the Father raises the dead, and quickens them, so also the Son quickens whom He will;” and immediately thereupon added as a reason, concerning the judgment, saying, “for the Father judges not any man, but all judgment has He given to the Son.” Why said He this, but to indicate that He had spoken of that resurrection of the dead which will take place in the judgment?