What I mean is, and I am not trying to cause any strife.. I don't mean this as it will sound, but you are reading the verse through the eyes of the Pharisees. See, they determined, not God, that picking on Sabbath was illegal. God didn't command against it, THEY did. So when they say, "he picked and broke the Sabbath," it was their addition to God's commandment and not the commandment from God, that was broken. Well, you are kind of doing that here. Exactly what is a load? Is a load a fork full of food? A child? An ox that needs to be pulled from a ditch? Or something more personal that can WAIT until after Sabbath? Yeshua healed a man of an infirmity and told him to get up, get his stuff, and go home. There is no way, none brother, that we can stretch this out to be breaking a command from God unless we allow JEWISH LAW (Rabbinic Rulings) to be deemed equal to God's law. What did John say? He said, "this is the love of God that we obey His commandments and His commandments ARE NOT A BURDEN!" The Pharisees ADDED burdens and then accursed Yeshua of breaking God's law when all he broke was the crap they added.
Be blessed.