Pilate sends to Herod
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καὶ ὁ Πειλᾶτος πέμψας πρὸς Ἡρῴδην ᾔτησεν αὐτοῦ τὸ σῶμα.
Because it is Herod who holds the authority here, Pilate must ask him for the body — a small detail that keeps the fragment's whole legal world turned around from the canonical one.
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