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All the NATIONS will be gathered before him

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ESV, Mt 25:

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
nations
ἔθνη (ethnē)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1484: Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.
Strong's Greek: 1484. ἔθνος (ethnos) — 163 Occurrences

BDAG: ① a body of persons united by kinship, culture, and common traditions, nation, people

[the people]
αὐτοὺς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

On Biblehub, 31 out of 31 versions translated G1484 as "nations".
 

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ESV, Mt 25:


nations
ἔθνη (ethnē)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1484: Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.
Strong's Greek: 1484. ἔθνος (ethnos) — 163 Occurrences

BDAG: ① a body of persons united by kinship, culture, and common traditions, nation, people

[the people]
αὐτοὺς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

On Biblehub, 31 out of 31 versions translated G1484 as "nations".
It's obviously individual people that are gathered and separated and then judged, so I believe it should have been translated as "all people" instead of "all nations" being gathered before Christ, since that fits the context of Matthew 25:31-46. At least the version you quoted says He will separate people one from another instead of nations, so that translation isn't bad and gets the intended meaning across that it's a judgment of individual people and not nations.
 
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