This is something that could very easily have been said by one of the two largest CULT GROUPS in the USA (Mormons and Jehovah’s Witmesses). And they both refer to “Jesus” but it’s not the Jesus of the Bible.
For Mormons, their Jesus is the brother of SATAN. For Jehovah’s Witnesses, their Jesus is a created being (not eternal as the Son of God is), although they say he’s the pre-eminent created being.
Neither one takes Jesus, as the Son of God in the Triune Godhead and in that Godhead having been here before the creation of anything seen or unseen in the universe (and even the “space” of the universe and the element of “time”) — or take him as the Almighty God and the Eternal and self-existent One, having no beginning and no end.
The CULT GROUPS are very good at using the same names and terminology, to fool people. It’s how they DEFINE them ... that makes the difference.
Just because they say “Jesus” and quote Scripture doesn’t mean anything.
And this is exactly the situation that Jesus said it would be, close to the time of him coming again ... “Deception!”
Let’s get back to the crux of the matter: he was told not to mention God, and he did. . . resoundingly and unapologetically. He didn’t preach even a whiff of any sectarian doctrine; he simply referenced Jesus and the New Testament Sermon on the Mount. If any listener was motivated to look up his reference in the Bible, I’ll trust the Holy Spirit to take over from there.