Exodus 20: 8-11 outlines the way the Israelites were to behave on the Sabbath. However, by the time of Christ, the definition of 'work' had been so stretched (so that you couldn't walk more than a certain distance; you couldn't take your donkey out to graze; you couldn't cook anything; ...) as to make a mockery of the instruction in Exodus. Even today, in certain Jewish communities, the act of flicking a light switch on (or off) is regarded as 'work' and therefore not done.
Right, so you are saying that Jesus wasn't so much doing away with the laws about the Sabbath (apart from a general instruction not to work found in the Ten Commandments), but that the parts of the Bible where those laws are written are examples of the sort of stuff where humans had written down their own thoughts on what God meant and ascribed it to God. So for example you are saying that it was never God's will that people couldn't gather firewood on the Sabbath, that it never was God's will that you shouldn't light a fire to cook something on the Sabbath, that those laws never were God's will?
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