Man’s greatest good by man is condemned. The offer of redemption rejected. The telling of truth threatened. But Peter and John return from such hostile opposition unsurprised. What’s more, the church shares in the same way of thinking. It is not so much the things they do as it is the way they think that marks them. Here, in this extraordinary scene that concludes the healing drama and the first taste of persecution, the gravitas of God is put on rich display through a prayer. The early church, in its most glorious moment of unity recorded, testifies to the sovereign centrality of God in her worship.