Warning Brethren in Christ Jesus:
In Hebrew, the word 'goy' or 'goyim' is used to point to the idea of Gentiles, foreigners not of the people of Israel. Jews are taught by an old tradition of the Jews that it always means foreigners of the Gentiles.
So in Matthew 25:32 when Jesus is speaking of His return and that gathering of all "nations" before Him to separate His sheep from the goats, Jews still TRY... to use that word "nations" to mean only Gentiles, when it is merely the Greek word ethnos (Strong's no.1484). Greek ethnos means ethnic, and most will say that means non-Jewish peoples. Even the Strong's definition points to that idea.
However, Apostle Paul often used the same Greek word ethnos when pointing to the nation of Israel...
Acts 28:19
19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation (ethnos) of.
KJV
Acts 26:4
4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation (ethnos) at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
KJV
Paul was pointing directly to the nation of Israel with Greek ethnos.
Thus there is NO reason to apply an old Jewish idea of 'goyim' (Gentiles) to the Greek word ethnos in The New Testament. The context instead is decided by the subject. And the subject Jesus is speaking of regarding the separating of His sheep from the goats is about the gathering of His Church.
John 10:14-16
14 I am the good shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine.
15 As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
KJV
In Hebrew, the word 'goy' or 'goyim' is used to point to the idea of Gentiles, foreigners not of the people of Israel. Jews are taught by an old tradition of the Jews that it always means foreigners of the Gentiles.
So in Matthew 25:32 when Jesus is speaking of His return and that gathering of all "nations" before Him to separate His sheep from the goats, Jews still TRY... to use that word "nations" to mean only Gentiles, when it is merely the Greek word ethnos (Strong's no.1484). Greek ethnos means ethnic, and most will say that means non-Jewish peoples. Even the Strong's definition points to that idea.
However, Apostle Paul often used the same Greek word ethnos when pointing to the nation of Israel...
Acts 28:19
19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation (ethnos) of.
KJV
Acts 26:4
4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation (ethnos) at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
KJV
Paul was pointing directly to the nation of Israel with Greek ethnos.
Thus there is NO reason to apply an old Jewish idea of 'goyim' (Gentiles) to the Greek word ethnos in The New Testament. The context instead is decided by the subject. And the subject Jesus is speaking of regarding the separating of His sheep from the goats is about the gathering of His Church.
John 10:14-16
14 I am the good shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine.
15 As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
KJV