89 There is debate among commentators and scholars over the phrase one will be taken and the other left about whether one is taken for judgment or for salvation. If the imagery is patterned after the rescue of Noah from the flood and Lot from Sodom, as some suggest, the ones taken are the saved (as Noah and Lot were) and those left behind are judged. The imagery, however, is not directly tied to the identification of the two groups. Its primary purpose in context is to picture the sudden, surprising separation of the righteous and the judged (i.e., condemned) at the return of the Son of Man.

In other versions

I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.

I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.

I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

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