'Privately' in the Bible

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

King Zedekiah later sent for him and received him, and in his house privately asked him, “Is there a word from the Lord?”“There is,” Jeremiah responded, and he continued, “You will be handed over to the king of Babylon.”

Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the 12 disciples aside privately and said to them on the way:

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached Him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”

And He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, He would explain everything to His own disciples.

So He took him away from the crowd privately. After putting His fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, He touched his tongue.

After He went into a house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple complex, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus all that they had done. He took them along and withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

Then turning to His disciples He said privately, “The eyes that see the things you see are blessed!

Then the commander took him by the hand, led him aside, and inquired privately, “What is it you have to report to me?”

I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles—but privately to those recognized as leaders—so that I might not be running, or have run the race, in vain.