Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 24:3

"Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad." — Jeremiah 24:3 (ASV)

What do you see, Jeremiah? —The question is asked as if to force the symbol as strongly as possible on the prophet’s mind, leaving him to wait until another word of the Lord should come and reveal its true interpretation. We are reminded, as he must have been, of the vision and the question which had first called him to his work as a prophet (Jeremiah 1:11).