He also made a reference to “Abraham’s bosom” and to an afterlife where a rich man who didn’t follow Torah could yell across a chasm to beg Abraham send Lazarus with water (Luke 16). I don’t know many Christians who look to Abraham’s Bosom or even Sheol as literal accounts of the afterlife, though.
So again, the issue with a historical Adam & Eve or Flood is not that the bible says it—but rather, what the biblical writers meant by it. Genre matters, which is why non-Young Earth Creationists can read the same creation accounts as their YEC peers and not come to YEC conclusions.
Okay, well, I guess Jesus was mistaken, then. /s