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,

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

So while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want to report to me?”