The Gospel reading for this Sunday, from the Gospel of John, contains a rather unusual word, which is translated in various ways across the range of English translations. The word (in Greek) is parakletos. It appears four times in the Gospel of John (14:16, 14:26, 15:26, and 16:7) and once more in the first epistle of … Continue reading The Paraclete in John’s Gospel: exploring the array of translation options (John 14, 15, 16)