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He never said that, so this is a bit of assumption.
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No, I am making an inference, not an assumption. A complete lack of qualifiers indicating we need to interpret the history depicted in Old Testament as allegorical and an assertion that Christianity is a progression in the same spiritual path walked by Judaism pretty much necessitates we take the Old Testament literally, as a demonstration of events which really happened in space-time, as was the prevalent and unchallenged (both by humans and by divine authorities) view of Jews (and later Christians) for thousands years before and after Jesus' time. The only Jewish tenet Jesus reversed was the literal strictness of rule observance.
By and large, it was only after it became obvious religious accounts of physics and history were wrong Christians went, "Whoa! We'd better get allegorical before people start abandoning the faith!" And to be honest, most of them don't even know what they mean by allegorical . . . that is, to what extent is the life of Jesus as depicted in New Testament allegorical? It is, after all, as peculiar and supernatural as many depictions of history and physics in Old Testament.