Was that dominion different to what Lazarus was under ? I'm going to assume that Lazarus went to the bosom of Abraham rather than to hell. I'm also thinking that everyone who was resurrected before Jesus was, was resurrected from the same place - the bosom of Abraham. Was Jesus the first (or only) person to be resurrected from hell ?
I'm thinking that he could only receive a glorified body as a human being by overcoming death (from the position of death) as a mortal first. Maybe he could have let them kill him in a glorified state and then God would resurrect him again but then it wouldn't make any difference to us and he wouldn't have qualified as a human being under the same conditions as us either. But because of the whole process he still qualifies as a human being and also has a glorified body and that is consequently our future, in him.
1 Cor 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
1 Cor 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
The above is from a discussion on our future bodily resurrection. But does it also relate Jesus' death and resurrection ? Certainly, the next 5 verses discuss that specifically. In his next letter he adds :
2 Cor 13:4 For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God.
But how did that happen ? He was originally immortal yet he gave his life up on the cross. In and of himself he was righteous yet he gave himself over to becoming a curse, to being seen as sin itself in the eyes of God. He was crucified and died in weakness.
Luke 16 says that Lazarus died and was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. There were no angels that carried the dead Jesus anywhere. He was sin itself in the eyes of God and he descended into the depths of hell. He was now mortal and weak and there was nothing that suggested that he would rise from the dead again. Not by his own power or immortality and not according to how God saw and treated him - as sin itself.
Phil 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name
Verse 9 declares that God eventually did take heed of his righteousness and his obedience and of course, his implicit faith. But it took three days of being mortal and weak before that happened.
Jonah 2:6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.
7 “When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.
8 “Those who regard worthless idols
Forsake their own Mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have vowed.
Salvation is of the Lord.”
10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Jesus didn't give the Pharisees any sign except the Jonah sign. Even though he was trapped down there forever per default, he still placed his trust in the salvation of the Lord and the Lord raised him up from death itself :
Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
He was crucified and died in weakness. He was resurrected in corresponding glory. Not simply because he descended into the coils of death itself. But because he remained righteous, obedient and in faith in the God who would raise him again even if Jesus' experience was that God had forsaken him and saw him as no better than sin itself. The glory corresponds to the depth of weakness and unfairness that his previous experience entailed.
That is, and remains, the greatest resurrection ever.