and if this be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and you keep free from anxiety.'
and having bound him, they did lead away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
saying, `Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him -- we being asleep;
and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command `them' to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding `there'.