Isa. 42:21 is the way that God would 'magnify His Law'...
[19] Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?
[20] Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
[21] The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Just for starters: Did Christ tell one to leave the ox in the ditch until after sunset? Or was this what they all were hearing Christ saying in Matt.23:1-2...
[1] Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
[2] Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
[3] All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Well how did Christ MAGNIFY His Law??
And the sick one?? Did He say to leave him alone until after sunset?
Again if one will read the verses of Isa. 58 s-l-o-w-l-y and prayerfully & ‘see’ verses 12-14 ...
[12] And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
[13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [[from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;]] and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
[14] Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Then we hear that Christ went through the corn field and picked enough corn for the whole week, huh?
No way, to magnify the Law was to do just that! His church were a bunch of LEGALISTS. Again Isa. 5 says it this way...
Isa.5
[1] Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
[2] And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
[3] And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, [[judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard]].
(and see who the choose in John 12:42-43)
[4] What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
But the Problem was never with the doctrines! See verse 3 AGAIN!
The New Church of Acts held to the same doctrines as were taught by Christ here... BUT THEY HAD BOTH CHRIST AND HIS DOCTRINES!
That is how John DOCUMENTED the fact that of... 1 John 2:6-8
[6] He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
[7] Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
[8] Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
But some still are in darkness & do not see how the darkness is past?? As one Baptist minister put it... Dr. E.T. Hiscox, (report of his sermon at the Baptist Minister’s Convention)
’To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three discussion with His disciples, often convening with them upon the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false (Jewish traditional) glosses, never alluded to any transference o the day; also, that during the forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the Spirit, which was given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever that He had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired apostals, in their preaching the gospel, founding churches, counseling and instructing those founded, discuss the subject.’
--Elijah