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Jesus had no Scripture. The word of God was spread mouth to mouth — person to person — Holy Tradition.

Wow! If this what happens by becoming a Catholic? Best to be avoided even on the basis. For rather than having no Scripture the Messiah established His Truth claims upon scriptural substantiation in word and in power, as did the early church as it began upon this basis. (Mt. 22:23-45; Lk. 24:27,44; Jn. 5:36,39; Acts 2:14-35; 4:33; 5:12; 15:6-21;17:2,11; 18:28; 28:23; Rm. 15:19; 2Cor. 12:12, etc.)

And God manifestly made writing His most-reliable means of authoritative preservation. (Exodus 17:14; 34:1,27; Deuteronomy 10:4; 17:18; 27:3,8; 31:24; Joshua 1:8; 2 Chronicles 34:15,18-19, 30-31; Psalm 19:7-11; 119; Psalm 102:18; Isaiah 30:8; Jeremiah 30:2; Matthew 4:5-7; 22:29; Luke 24:44,45; John 5:46,47; John 20:31; Acts 17:2,11; 18:28; Revelation 1:1; 20:12, 15;

And as is abundantly evidenced , as written, Scripture became the transcendent supreme standard for obedience and testing and establishing truth claims as the wholly Divinely inspired and assured, Word of God. Thus the veracity of oral preaching subject to testing by Scripture, and not vice versa.

It was not because oral tradition preserved the Word of God that brought about a national revival, but because of the wholly inspired-of-God written word: (2 Chronicles 34:15

And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. (2 Chronicles 34:15-31)

Now most likely you meant Jesus had no NT Scripture, for the word of God thru Him was spread mouth to mouth before it was penned, although most of the NT was directly written as Scripture.

However, rather than this meaning Rome likewise speaks the wholly inspired word of God top us, while men such as the apostles could speak as wholly inspired of God and also provide new public revelation thereby (in conflation with what had been written), neither popes and councils claim to do to speaking or writting what they assert is the word of God. .

As for preaching the truth of the word of God, as in the gospel, all the church did that. (Acts 8:4) God manifestly made writing His most-reliable means of authoritative preservation Moreover,