Why did Jesus often refer to himself in the third person?

Such is the complexity of the triune nature of God. Even though Jesus reveals God's true nature to us in some terms we can grasp, he is beyond our limited ability to fully understand.

The use of the third person to speak of ones self is very common in many languages. It was common for a long time in English, and is still often used by royalty to speak of themselves.

It served two purposes. The first was as a sign of humility. You did not call attention to yourself, so you spoke of yourself in the thrid person. You will find that also in the gospels, where Matthew speaks of his calling by Jesus from his tax collecting job in the third person. Mark speaks of his following Jesus to garden on the night of his betrayal in the third person, and John refers to himself in the third person as "the disciple that Jesus loved". All are trying to keep from calling attention to themselves.

It was also used as a sign of authority and respect. When Jesus spoke of himself as "the son of man" it was to show that he was an authority and someone to be respected. That is that way that royalty often uses the third person or the royal "we".

As for the identity of the "another Comforter", Jesus himself tells us who that is. He states in the very next that this Comforted is the Holy Spirit (third person of the Trinity). In fact, verses 16 and 17 are actually one sentence. What he said was "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth." So no, the "another Comforter" is not Jesus himself.

He was born naturally, just as any other baby would be born, from a mothers womb. If Jesus was the son of God then why would Christians have to be called the children of God. If God really wanted to have children & grandchildren on Earth then he would have ordered Jesus Christ to marry & have children. God is a spiritual power & no spiritual being, let alone God, can ever make a child. All of Gods prophets were human beings but they are very special beings because they showed us the path to God.

Jesus and the Christ are to separate things...Jesus is the person...the Christ is a bestowal of "universal Sonship" (the Great Father-Mother's acknowledgement of this individual as the representation of their august office, Christ Consciousness/Cosmic Consciousness is God Realization or Self Realization)

The Christ was an altogether different Power/Office, but Jesus possessed the Christ and others began to refer to him as both.

Jesus realized that he by himself was not the Christ, but when he was bestowed with Christ it was like speaking of an altogether different entity.

God bestows the Christ office upon those who merit it, such as those who have come to this world to teach a world message...

If you were to be given a godlike power, you would see your former self as an altogether different entity because you would be so un-alike in capacities and abilities....

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:17

because he was speaking to his followers

no the comforter is not jesus it is the holy spirit or the holy ghost

KJV: John Chapter 14

[26] But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

You are being presumptuous. Biblical scholars have long pointed out that it is not at all clear that Jesus is referring to himself. Many in fact believe that a proper textual analysis shows that Jesus was referring to someone else who'd come after him.

Jesus sometimes suspected there were several of him.

I seem to remember him saying "I realize there are more of you than me, and yet there are more of me than you realize."

And Catholics kept scrutinizing every quote to determine exactly how many of him there were, and this is how they came up with the idea of trinity.

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His followers would come to know who He was talking about, but others may not then. It was a way not to be prideful.

Good question! Jesus himself said that he wasn't speaking of his own accord but that the Father spoke through him and how to react: "For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it." John 12:49

The next verse we see the prophet Moses speaks of one that will be greater than himself and this greater one will have God 'put words in his mouth'. " I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account."

(Deuteronomy 18:18)

Simply put, God was speaking through Jesus.