And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
True friendship is strengthened in adversity.
Jesus offers his disciples the best and truest of friends. Counselor is a legal term for the one who will defend someone against an adversary and who guides that person during the ordeal of trial. The Holy Spirit is our Advocate and Helper who brings us safely through the challenges and adversities we must face in this life. As Jesus approaches the hour he was to be glorified through his death on the cross and his resurrection, he revealed more fully to his disciples the person and role of the Holy Spirit. First, the Holy Spirit is inseparably one with the Father and the Son.