Matthew 25:33

New Life Version

He will put the sheep on His right side, but the goats He will put on His left side.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on the left.

King James Version (1611)
And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

King James Version
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

English Standard Version
And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

New American Standard Bible
and He will put the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left.

New Century Version
The Son of Man will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

Amplified Bible
and He will put the sheep on His right [the place of honor], and the goats on His left [the place of rejection].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

Legacy Standard Bible
and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

Berean Standard Bible
He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.

Contemporary English Version
He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

Complete Jewish Bible
The ‘sheep' he will place at his right hand and the ‘goats' at his left.

Darby Translation
and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on [his] left.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, and the goates on the left.

George Lamsa Translation
And he will set the sheep at his right, and the goats at his left.

Good News Translation
He will put the righteous people at his right and the others at his left.

Lexham English Bible
And he will place the sheep on his right and the goats on the left.

Literal Translation
And indeed He will set the sheep off His right, but the goats off the left hand .

American Standard Version
and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Bible in Basic English
And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

Hebrew Names Version
He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

International Standard Version
He will put the sheep on his right but the goats on his left.

Etheridge Translation
And he shall cause the sheep to stand upon his right hand, and the goats on his left.

Murdock Translation
And he will place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he shall set the sheepe on his right hande, but the goates on the lefte.

English Revised Version
and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

World English Bible
He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he will set the sheep on his right-hand, and the goats on the left.

Weymouth's New Testament
and will make the sheep stand at His right hand, and the goats at His left.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he schal departe hem atwynne, as a scheeperde departith scheep from kidis; and he schal sette the scheep on his riythalf, and the kidis on the lefthalf.

Update Bible Version
and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

New English Translation
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

New King James Version
And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

New Living Translation
He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.

New Revised Standard
and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he will set, the sheep, indeed, on his right hand, but, the goats, on the left.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.

Revised Standard Version
and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he shall set the shepe on his right honde and the gotes on the lyfte.

Young's Literal Translation
and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he shal set ye shepe on his right honde, and the goates on the lefte.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Simplified Cowboy Version
He will put the sheep on his right side and the goats to the left.

Contextual Overview

³¹ "When the Son of Man comes in His shining-greatness, He will sit down on His throne of greatness. All the angels will be with Him. ³² All the nations of the earth will be gathered before Him. He will divide them from each other as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will put the sheep on His right side, but the goats He will put on His left side. ³⁴ "Then the King will say to those on His right side, ‘Come, you who have been called by My Father. Come into the holy nation that has been made ready for you before the world was made. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave Me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave Me water to drink. I was a stranger and you gave Me a room. ³⁶ I had no clothes and you gave Me clothes to wear. I was sick and you cared for Me. I was in prison and you came to see Me.' ³⁷ "Then those that are right with God will say, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You? When did we see You thirsty and give You a drink? ³⁸ When did we see You a stranger and give You a room? When did we see You had no clothes and we gave You clothes? ³⁹ And when did we see You sick or in prison and we came to You?' ⁴⁰ Then the King will say, ‘For sure, I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of My brothers, you have done it to Me.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sheep: Psalms 79:13, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 100:3, John 10:26-28, John 21:15-17

his: Genesis 48:13, Genesis 48:14, Genesis 48:17-19, Psalms 45:9, Psalms 110:1, Mark 16:19, Acts 2:34, Acts 2:35, Ephesians 1:20, Hebrews 1:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:12 - a goat 1 Kings 2:19 - she sat 2 Kings 10:23 - the worshippers Psalms 16:11 - pleasures Jeremiah 24:3 - What Ezekiel 20:37 - pass Ezekiel 20:38 - I will purge Ezekiel 34:17 - I judge Zechariah 10:3 - and I Matthew 25:41 - them

Cross-References

Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have promised the Lord God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,

Genesis 24:3
and I will have you promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth. Promise that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, who live around me.

Genesis 25:6
But while he was still living, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the women he kept who acted as his wives. And he sent them to the land of the East, away from his son Isaac.

Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived 175 years.

Genesis 27:36
Then Esau said, "Was it not right that he was given the name Jacob? Two times now he has taken what should have been mine. He took away my right as a first-born. And now he has taken away the good that was to come to me." Then he said, "Can you not pray that good will come to me also?"

Mark 6:23
Then he made a promise to her, "Whatever you ask for, I will give it to you. I will give you even half of my nation."

Hebrews 6:16
When men make a promise, they use a name greater than themselves. They do this to make sure they will do what they promise. In this way, no one argues about it.

Hebrews 12:16
None of you should fall into sex sins or forget God like Esau did. He had a right to get all Isaac had because he was the oldest son. But for one plate of food he sold this right to his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,.... That is, the elect of God, and true believers, such as have the grace of God truly implanted in them; the sheep the Father gave unto Christ, and made his care and charge, whom he, as the good shepherd, laid down his life for; and who know his voice in effectual calling, and follow him in the way of his ordinances and appointments; and are comparable to sheep for their meekness and innocence, their simplicity and usefulness, and their harmless and inoffensive lives, and conversations: these Christ will set on his right hand, as a token of his affection for them, and a mark of respect and honour shown them, and as a pledge of that exaltation and glory he will be about to raise them to.

But the goats on the left; that is, the foolish virgins, wicked, and slothful servants, graceless professors, who, because of the impurity of their hearts, the filthiness of their lives, and their offensiveness to Christ, are compared to goats: these he will place at his left hand, in token of his disaffection for them, as a brand of disgrace upon them, and as an intimation of that dishonour, and miserable condition they will quickly be in. These different situations plainly pre-signify how things will go with each, that one will be acquitted, and made happy, the other will be condemned, and become miserable. Agreeable to which the Jews say c, that there is a right hand and a left hand with the Lord: they that are on the right hand, are such as have done well, and are לזכות, "for absolution"; and they that are on the left hand are criminals, and are לחובה, "for condemnation". Some think the allusion is to the two Scribes in the sanhedrim, who stood before the judges, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, and wrote the sentences; the one of those that were acquitted, and the other of those that were condemned d.

c Jarchi in Gen. i. 26. Kimchi in 1 Kings xxii. 19. Lex. Cabalist. p. 132. Zohar in Numb. fol. 93. 4. d Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 4. sect. 3. Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 1. sect. 9. Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Tora pr. affirm. 97.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall set the sheep ... - By “the sheep” are denoted, here, the righteous. The name is given to them because the sheep is an emblem of innocence and harmlessness. See John 10:7, John 10:14-16, John 10:27; Psalms 100:3; Psalms 74:1; Psalms 23:1-6.

On the right hand - The right hand is the place of honor, and denotes the situation of those who are honored, or those who are virtuous. See Ecclesiastes 10:2; Ephesians 1:20; Psalms 110:1; Acts 2:25, Acts 2:33.

The goats - The wicked. See Ezekiel 34:17.

The left - That is, the left hand. This was the place of dishonor, denoting condemnation. See Ecclesiastes 10:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. He shall set the sheep, c.] The right hand signifies, among the rabbins, approbation and eminence: the left hand, rejection, and disapprobation. Hence in Sohar Chadash it is said, "The right hand is given, the left also is given - to the Israelites and the Gentiles are given paradise and hell - this world, and the world to come." The right and left were emblematical of endless beatitude and endless misery among the Romans. Hence Virgil:-

Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas,

Dextera, quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit:

Hac iter Elysium nobis at laeva malorum

Exercet poenas, et ad impia Tartara mittit.

AEn. vi. 540.

Here in two ample roads the way divides,

The right direct, our destined journey guides,

By Pluto's palace, to the Elysian plains;

The left to Tartarus, where bound in chains

Loud howl the damn'd in everlasting pains. PITT.

Of the good and faithful servants he approves, and therefore exalts them to his glory; of the slothful and wicked he disapproves, and casts them into hell.

SHEEP, which have ever been considered as the emblems of mildness, simplicity, patience, and usefulness, represent here the genuine disciples of Christ.

GOATS, which are naturally quarrelsome, lascivious, and excessively ill-scented, were considered as the symbols of riotous, profane, and impure men. They here represent all who have lived and died in their sins. See Ezekiel 34:17, and Zechariah 10:3.