<p>14:16 <i>And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that he may be with you for ever</i>- Another Comforter / intercessor implies that the Lord Jesus was the first Paraclete as confirmed in 1 Jn. 2:1. Yet Moses was the foremost intercessor for Israel, and is actually called &lsquo;the Paraclete&rsquo; in the Midrash on Ex. 12:29. But the idea is that the Lord was only physically with them for so long; the Comforter would mean that His presence was with them &quot;for ever&quot;. Any attempt to confine the work of the Comforter to the first century is therefore ill founded. For the contrast is with how the Lord physically was with them for only a period; but the Comforter, His abiding presence, would remain with them &quot;for ever&quot;.</p>