'Followers' in the Bible

"Have you never read so much as this," answered Jesus--"what David did when he and his followers were hungry;

how he entered the house of God and took and ate the Presented Loaves and gave some to his followers--loaves which none but the Priests are allowed to eat?"

But all His acquaintances, and the women who had been His followers after leaving Galilee, continued standing at a distance and looking on.