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Because Jesus was arrested there. Because Jesus performed so many miracles there it was also were he died.

Catholic AnswerJerusalem is important because it is where the world is headed: the heavenly Jerusalem, home of the Saints of God. It appears twice in the book of Revelation, it is the city where God dwells.
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