The Promise of a Comforter in the New Testament. We come to Muslim attempts to find prophecies to Muhammad in the New Testament, in particular in the words of Jesus Christ where he predicted the coming of the Holy Spirit and spoke of him as "the Comforter". (Whereas the Revised Standard Version uses the word "Counsellor" rather than "Comforter", we shall use the word "Comforter" throughout this section because it is more familiar to the Muslims).