Reference: ADVOCATE, OR PARACLETE
American
One that pleads the cause of another. In its technical sense, the office was unknown to the Jews till they became subject to the Romans. It is applied to Christ as our intercessor, 1Jo 2:1; compare Ro 8:34; Heb 7:25; and to the Holy Spirit, as our teacher and comforter, Joh 14:16; 15:26.
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and I will pray the father: and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you ever,
"But when the comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the father, which is the spirit of truth which proceedeth of the father, he shall testify of me.
who then shall condemn? It is Christ which is dead; Yea rather which is risen again, which is also on the righthand of God and maketh intercession for us.
Wherefore he is able also ever to save them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for us.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye should sin not: if, though, any man sin, yet we have an Advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ, which is righteous.