'Party' in the Bible

when there came a party of people bringing a paralytic--four men carrying him.

"Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.

As they came to rejoin the disciples, they saw an immense crowd surrounding them and a party of Scribes disputing with them.

Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"

Then came to Him a party of Sadducees, a sect which denies that there is any Resurrection; and they proceeded to question Him.

There were also a party of women looking on from a distance; among them being both Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James the Little and of Joses, and Salome--