24And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
It is unlikely that everyone prayed the same prayer together at the same time. Most probably Peter formulated the prayer and the other believers expressed their assent with a response of Amen.1 One person would thus have spoken in the name of the whole gathering.2
24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,