“The Parakletos “ Introduction:
The disciples had spent three and a half years with the Messiah our Lord Jesus, They had been eyewitnesses to his life, His miracles, His word, His death and Resurrection. They had received the Great Commission and felt the urgency to fulfil it. They had been in the best Bible School that has ever existed and received theological and practical training in spiritual matters concerning the things of God’s kingdom by the master of all teachers.
Now the Lord Jesus was going away and would need someone to replace Him. This provision was to be found in the God the Holy Spirit the third person of the Tri-Unity of the Godhead. He would be one equal in divinity and power to God the father and God the Son being Himself God the Spirit.
In the text of John’s gospel in chapters 14:17-18, 26; 15:26; 16:7-11, which we will be looking at, translates the Holy Spirit as “the counsellor or “the comforter” or as “the advocate” in our English Bibles. In the Greek text of these verses He is called; “the paráklētos,” defined as “One called to stand alongside of another to strengthen them,” or as “one summoned to one’s side to give them aid, one who pleads another’s cause before a judge, a pleader, a counsel for the defence or a legal assistant and an advocate and intercessor and one who gives succour or is a consoler.” The Greek text of these verses we will be studying brings out the fuller meaning of the word used for the Holy Spirit.
