 And at these words the blood ceased to effervesce.According to the ancient apocryphal "Lives of the Prophets", after the death of Zechariah Ben Jehoiada, the priests of the Temple could no more, as before, see the apparitions of the angels of the Lord, nor could make divinations with the Ephod, nor give responses from the "Debir".Most modern Christian commentators identify this Zechariah with the one whose murder Jesus alluded to in and .