'Friends' in the Bible

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

The disciples therefore went away again unto their own friends,