Parable Memory

Since we have been working on this passage for a little while, I decided to write it out and see how much I already know. I typed it as best I could remember it, and then I went through and made corrections. The things I did wrong I have (bracketed in tiny red), and the correct version is beside it in red. I hope that's clear enough to you as you look it over, but even if it's not, I know what I was doing, and it's clear to me!

For the (The) kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the
morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius
for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

About the third hour he went out and (found) saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He (said to) told them, "You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right." So they went.

He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. (At) About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, "Why have you been standing here in the marketplace all day doing
nothing?" (he asked them.)

(They said to him,) "Because no one has hired us," they answered.
He said to them, "You also go and work in my vineyard." (he told them.)

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, "Call the
workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going
on to the first."

(When those who had been) The workers who were hired at the eleventh hour came (, they) and each received a denarius. So when (the men came who had been) those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But (they) each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. "These men who were hired last worked only one hour," they said, "(but) and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day."

(The owner) But he answered one of them, "Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the (one) man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what(ever) I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"

So the last (shall) will be first, and the first (shall) will be last.

Matthew 20:1-16 (NIV)

So I can see that I have the flow of the story pretty well down, but there are little style and language differences that I need to pay more attention to. Now I know what to focus on over the next week. I'll see how I do next Monday.