If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”
So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.