Jesus said, I'm going to go away and I'm going to send you another paraclade to stand beside you when.

After you go through all of this and you come home and you're weeping in frustration,

then I'm going to send the spirit along that make you feel better.

That's not what he's saying here.

In the ancient world, a paraclate was the title that was given to a defense attorney.

And usually, the kind of defense attorney that a family was involved with on a permanent retainer

basis so that any time a person got in trouble they could call upon their paraclete

to stand with them in the midst of the crisis.

Now, when Jesus said, I'm going to go away and I'm going to send you a comforter or a paraclete,

he was not saying that after I send you out in the world like lambs in the midst of wolves,

and you get your brains beat in, and you

suffer humiliation and tragedy and persecution, all of which you will suffer, he said.

But don't worry, after you go through all of this hassle and you come home and you're

weeping in frustration, then I'm going to send the spirit along that make you feel better.

That's not what he's saying here. He's saying that I am going to send another paraclade

to stand beside you when? In the midst of the battle, in the midst of the struggle,

in the midst of the battle, in the midst of the struggle, in the midst of the crisis.

In fact, the reason why the King James used the term comforter was that when the King James

version was written, the language of English at that time was much more closely tied to its Latin roots than it is today.

And a comforter was not thought of in the way we're describing it today.

But rather, here we have it coming from the Latin, combs, with.

So a comforter is somebody who comes with. And so those of you that play the piano,

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