'Privately' in the Bible
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.