influenced by the hypocrisy of liars ¹  whose consciences are seared. ² 

After getting into a boat he crossed to the other side and came to his own town. ¹ 

So they went away by themselves in a boat to some remote place.

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

Then ¹  Jesus ²  turned ³  to his ⁴  disciples and said privately, “Blessed ⁵  are the eyes that see what you see!

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, ¹  they followed him on foot from the towns. ² 

And after he sent the crowds away, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

Six days later ¹  Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, ²  and led them privately up a high mountain.

Then the disciples came ¹  to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, ¹  he took the twelve ²  aside privately and said to them on the way,

To ¹  one he gave five talents, ²  to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

After Jesus ¹  took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ²  ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue. ³ 

Then, ¹  after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

So ¹  while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, ²  and Andrew asked him privately,

When ¹  the apostles returned, ²  they told Jesus ³  everything they had done. Then ⁴  he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town ⁵  called Bethsaida. ⁶ 

The commanding officer ¹  took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want ²  to report to me?”

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

As ¹  he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things ²  happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

Six days later ¹  Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them, ²