1 Samuel 10:11
Good News Translation
People who had known him before saw him doing this and asked one another, "What has happened to the son of Kish? Has Saul become a prophet?"

New Revised Standard Version
When all who knew him before saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Contemporary English Version
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?"

New American Bible
When all who had known him previously saw him in a prophetic state among the prophets, they said to one another, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing that he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the prophets?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing that he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the prophets?

when all

John 9:8,9 The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he. . . .

Acts 3:10 And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.

Matthew 13:54,55 And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and miracles? . . .

Acts 2:7,8 And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these that speak Galilean? . . .

Acts 4:13 Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 9:21 And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

Is Saul

1 Samuel 19:24 And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied with the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night. This gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets?

John 7:15 And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?

Context
Samuel's Signs Fulfilled
10And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them. 11And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing that he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the prophets?12And one answered another, saying: And who is their father? therefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?…
Cross References
Matthew 13:54
And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and miracles?

John 7:15
And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?

1 Samuel 19:24
And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied with the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night. This gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets?

Amos 7:14
But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.

Amos 7:15
And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.

1 Samuel 10:10
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