Nephi is preaching and baptizing, and there are those who believe, signifying that there were people who repented based on Samuel’s words. Nevertheless, there were still many who did not believe Samuel.
We next find out that the summary of the positive results looked forward to the aftermath of the incident. Mormon returns to the incident and its more immediate conclusion. Those who were angry, and had attempted to kill him from a distance, attempted then to take him prisoner. Mormon tells us that: “As they went forth to lay their hands on him, behold, he did cast himself down from the wall, and did flee out of their lands.” That clearly happened before those who repented could find Nephi so that they could be baptized.