Acts 17:31
Acts 17:3131For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
JWs affirm — Jehovah has appointed Jesus as the judge of the inhabited earth and guaranteed that appointment by resurrecting him from the dead. The verse is read compatibly with the JW framework: Jehovah's chosen agent executing Jehovah's judgment.
Two observations worth lingering over. First, locates eschatological judgment in the hands of a raised man — "a man whom he has appointed." The resurrection did not de-gender or de-humanise Jesus; he remained identifiably a man. Pair with , where the angels tell the disciples at the ascension "this same Jesus" will return in the same way they saw him go. Pair with , where Mary recognises the risen Christ as "Rabboni." The resurrected body is transformed (1 Corinthians 15) but the person is preserved. This matters when JWs appeal to to neutralise the literal "male" of — if resurrection dissolved gender, it would also have dissolved humanity, ethnicity, and personal identity. It evidently did not. Second, the verse grounds judgment in the historical resurrection rather than a private organisational claim. The guarantee is public, evidential, and Christ-centred — not institutional.