No but He DID command them to submit to their authority, which Luther, Calvin and Henry VIII did not do.
You misread the passage. Greek would help.
Christ said the teachers claim the authority of Moses by sitting in his seat in front of the synagogues, teaching the Law.
Christ says to do what the Law teaches and *not* do what they do.
Every Jew was under the authority of the Law as a covenant with Israel.
He then went on to excoriate them with 7 woes
- and by the way, many of those apply to the leaders of Roman Catholicism.