John 14:26
John 14:2626But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
JWs use this verse to argue that Jehovah sends his active force to help believers remember Jesus' teachings. The Watchtower applies the "teaching" and "reminding" functions to the organisation itself — the Governing Body is the instrument through which the spirit teaches, making individual Spirit-led understanding unnecessary. The NWT's lowercase "holy spirit" and impersonal pronoun choices reinforce the claim that the Spirit is a force, not a person.
Jesus promises that the Father will send the Helper (paraklētos) in his name, and that "he will teach you all things and bring back to your minds all the things I told you." Teaching and reminding are personal cognitive actions — an impersonal force cannot teach or bring things to mind. The Greek masculine demonstrative ekeinos is rendered "he" by all major translations, recognising that the Spirit is spoken of as a person. This verse, combined with (guiding into truth) and (testifying), presents a sustained portrait of the Spirit as a personal agent who continues Jesus' own teaching ministry. The promise is made to the disciples directly — not mediated through an organisation. confirms the Spirit's personal and divine nature: lying to the Spirit is lying to God.
The NWT renders the Greek masculine demonstrative ekeinos as "that one" rather than "he," technically following Greek grammar but deliberately avoiding the personal English pronoun. For neuter auto (agreeing with the grammatically neuter pneuma), the NWT uses "it" where all major translations override grammatical gender to use "him," recognising that the Spirit is spoken of as a person who teaches, testifies, convicts, guides, and speaks. The combined effect depersonalises the Spirit across the Upper Room Discourse.