Advocate

An advocate is someone who pleads the case or the cause of another person or persons, usually in a judicial court. The Greek word is παράκλητος, paraklatos, and occurs five times in the New Testament:

• John 14:16, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper [paraklatos], that He may be with you forever."
• John 14:26, “But the Helper [paraklatos], the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you."
• John 15:26, "When the Helper [paraklatos] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me."
• John 16:7, “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper [paraklatos] shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you."
• 1 John 2:1, "My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate [paraklatos] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."