The fire fell in Episode 1. Now the world puts its hand out to smother it.
Weeks after Pentecost, Peter and John heal a lame beggar at the temple gate — and by evening they’re in a cell. This episode traces the church’s first collision with real opposition: an arrest before the Sanhedrin, a command to stop preaching that Peter and John simply cannot obey, a lie inside the community from Ananias and Sapphira, the wisdom of Gamaliel, and the stoning of Stephen — the first martyr of the church, who died with his Lord’s own words in his mouth.
Acts of the Apostles
