'Privately' in the Bible
Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.
Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.
Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,
As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, "Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"