This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I arrived with my troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.
In context
25And he wrote a letter along these lines: 26“Claudius Lysias, to His Excellency the governor Felix: greetings. 27This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I arrived with my troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen. 28Wanting to know the charge on which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin. 29I found that the accusation had to do with disputed points of their own law, and that there was no charge against him deserving death or imprisonment.