If Pilate finds out about this, don’t worry. We’ll make sure you don’t get blamed.”
So they bound him and led him away to Pilate, the Roman governor.
After he interrogated the guards, he ordered them executed. Then Herod left the province of Judea for Caesarea and stayed there for a period of time.
and told them, “Tell everyone, ‘While we were asleep, his disciples came at night and stole his body!’