@objectivetruth I'm going to slightly attack your methodology of progress on this one.
Jesus (at the time) didn't present “truth” to anyone. What he presented was NOT the organized religion of the time – Judaism. As an example, imagine going to the doctor with a lump and you ask, “what is it?” He says, “Well, it's not cancer.”
Great, it's not cancer. “Then what is it?” you ask, naturally. The doctor is going to respond with a variety of different tools, machines, methods, and tests that they can perform to find out what the lump actually is. A lump can be different things to different people depending on body DNA, lifestyle, etc.
Jesus worked in much the same way. This is why he spoke mainly in parables and in storytelling. He wasn't presenting a path to truth, per se. He was presenting tools so that we can find our own, personal, path to truth without the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, the weight of (any) imperial nation... without the weight from each other. This is a general theme throughout all the gospel accounts of the bible and those not included in the bible except one: The Gospel of John.
Written in the 1 st century, it is the only Gospel account that retroactively puts Jesus in the role of the Divine where “I am the way, the truth, and the light,” originated. It's also written in different language. So it's understandable if you want to make declarative statements like “He simply stuck to the truth, and taught the truth.“ But understand that collectively, The Gospel of John is the odd man out on this. What Jesus really stuck to were tools to create our own personal truth. It wasn't until centuries later with books like John and Paul's letters that Jesus began to take that of the 'one true way' and there was (per Paul) a rather structured road applied.
If you take the bible's authorship literally then this is a lost argument, and I apologize for wasting your time.
If you do not, then please understand the nature through which Jesus taught. If you focus less on the man and who he was and more on the words he spoke, you might be able to understand why there are many truths to many people, varied through time and forged from experience all based off the strong tools Jesus provided. It's almost like 'the truth you seek will finally be revealed once you stop trying to seek it.'
Philosophically speaking. Like I mentioned, if you are more rigid in structure of bible interpretation, this is the wrong argument and (again) I apologize.