"If this comes to the ears of the governor," they added, "we will satisfy him and see that you have no trouble about the matter."
After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Herod made inquiries for him but could not find him; so, after cross-examining the guards, he ordered them off to death. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea, where he spent some time.
and told them to say that "his disciples came at night and stole him when we were asleep."