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Paraklet
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Perhaps you mean Paraclete.
In the Greek New Testament the word is most prominent in the Johannine writings. It appears in the Gospel of John where it may be translated into English as "counselor", "helper", “advocate”, or "comforter"
Paraclete - Wikipedia
Philo an Hellenized Jew speaks several times of "paraclete" advocates primarily in the sense of human intercessors.
Although Christians attribute the word to the Holy Spirit in Acts of the apostles 2:1-4, there is good reason to see the term as Messianic and attributal to Jesus Himself and the appearances of other Comforters. In that sense I believe He could refer to future Great Prophets that have a similar role to Moses and Jesus. In that sense it could refer to Muhammad, and also the twin Manifestations of the Baha'i Faith, the Bab and Baha'u'llah.
This is an advanced Christian topic irrelevant to Islam. In Islam you have to be told things. This is the opposite of being told things. This means wisdom is given directly to each Christian. Typically it is translated from the Greek like this (NIV) "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." So, instead of Jesus staying with his disciples and teaching them every little thing he says that the truth will be revealed to them after he is gone, not six hundred years later, not a thousand years later. He says they will be led by the Holy Spirit implying it will come to them. The concept is one of direct revelation. Confirming this is a common teaching the NT canon also contains other references to this concept. It does not appear in isolation.
You are right,He means that there is someone greater than Him.