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11 Some people who had known Saul for a long time saw that he was speaking and behaving like a prophet. They said to each other, “What's happened? How can Saul be a prophet?”

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11 When all those who had formerly known him saw him prophesying with the prophets, they asked each other, “What is this(A) that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”(B)

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12 (A) “Why not?” one of them answered. “Saul has as much right to be a prophet as anyone else!”[a] That's why everyone started saying, “How can Saul be a prophet?”

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Footnotes

  1. 10.12 Why not … anyone else: Or “Sure he is! He's probably the leader of the prophets!” or “How can he be? Those prophets are nobodies!”

12 A man who lived there answered, “And who is their father?” So it became a saying: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”(A)

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