Lights flashed out everywhere; great running to and fro could be distinguished; rapid trumpet-calls and the prolonged roll of drums from company quarters to quarters were echoed back from Antonia and from Hippicus.

The startled shouts of commanders; the nervous dropping of arms; the sharp excited response to roll-call; the sound of sentries challenging, the curt response by countersign, showed everywhere irregularities and the symptoms of panic in the immovable ranks of Titus.
Seraiah meanwhile had disappeared from his place as mysteriously as he had come.
Many of the Jews who remained on the wall believed that he had passed into the Roman camp and was troubling it.

The fall of the tower, and the confusion it had wrought in the Roman camp, never occurred to them to have been fortuitous incidents with which Seraiah had nothing to do.

Of the thousands that witnessed that miracle, most of them were convinced that the hour had come.
Meanwhile Jerusalem was roaring with excitement.

The city was ready for a Messiah.