Note 75 at Jn. 16:7: The Greek word translated "expedient" is "sumphero" which means "to be an advantage; profitable." How could any situation be more advantageous or profitable than having Jesus physically with you?

When Jesus walked on this earth in His physical body, He was subject to many physical limitations. For instance, He could not always be with every one of His disciples all the time. Through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, He could. Instead of Satan getting rid of Jesus, 120 "little Christs" (that is literally what the word "Christian" means) came out of the upper room on the day of Pentecost.

Jesus had taught His disciples as no teacher ever had, and yet they had very little understanding because they had not been born again yet (1 Cor. 2:14). However, when the Holy Spirit came, He would lead them into all truth (Jn. 14:26; 16:13) and even show them things to come (v. 13).

The list of advantages of having the Holy Spirit in us as compared to having Jesus with us in His physical body, goes on and on. The advantages can all be summed up in the fact that Jesus' power is now complete (Mt. 28:18) and no longer confined to one physical body.